Sir Roger Penrose

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Knighthood
gptkbp:birthDate 1931-08-08
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Colchester,_Essex,_England
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mathematical physics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Sir Roger Penrose
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gptkb:orchestrated_objective_reduction_(Orch-OR)
gptkb:Penrose–Hawking_singularity_theorems
gptkb:Penrose_process
gptkb:Penrose_triangle
work on black holes
Penrose tiling
conformal cyclic cosmology
twistor theory
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gptkb:Shadows_of_the_Mind
gptkb:The_Road_to_Reality
gptkb:The_Emperor's_New_Mind
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gptkb:physicist
gptkb:professor
author
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gptkbp:positionHeld Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford
gptkbp:religion Agnostic
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gptkb:Oliver_Penrose
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Vanessa_Thomas
gptkbp:website https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/roger.penrose
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