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Roger Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, and philosopher of science. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, an emeritus fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and an honorary fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and University College London. He shared the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawking si…
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science · English mathematician, mathematical physicist (born 1931) · mathematician · physicist · philosopher · university teacher · astronomer · astrophysicist · also Roger Penrose, R. Penrose, Sir Roger Penrose, Penrose
Born 8 August 1931 · Q193803
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2026· 2 entries
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Roger Penrose
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2025· 1 entry
Penrose received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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2020· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2020).
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Penrose was awarded one half of the Nobel Prize in Physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity, a half-share als
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2019· 1 entry
Awarded Pomeranchuk Prize (2019).
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2018· 1 entry
Penrose received an honorary degree from King's College London
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2017· 1 entry
Was awarded the Commandino Medal at the Urbino University (Italy) for his contributions to the history of science
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2015· 1 entry
Penrose was awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa (Dr
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2012· 1 entry
Penrose was awarded the Richard R
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded Fonseca Prize (2011).
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2010· 1 entry
Penrose reported possible evidence, based on concentric circles found in Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe data of the cosmic microwave background sky, of an earlier universe existing before the Big Bang of the presen
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2008· 3 entries
Won Copley Medal (2008).
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Awarded Clarivate Citation Laureates (2008).
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Penrose was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society
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2006· 2 entries
Won Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics (2006).
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Was conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of the University (DUniv) by the University of York and also won the Dirac Medal given by the University of New South Wales (Australia)
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2005· 5 entries
Won Dalton Medal (2005).
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Awarded Honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Louvain (2005).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Warsaw (2005).
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Was also awarded the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society Dalton Medal
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Penrose received a Doctorate Honoris Causa (Dr
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2004· 4 entries
Won Amaldi Medal (2004).
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Won De Morgan Medal (2004).
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Penrose released The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe, a 1,099-page comprehensive guide to the Laws of Physics that includes an explanation of his own theory
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Penrose was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science (DSc) degree from the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) and was awarded the De Morgan Medal by the London Mathematical Society for his wide and original contributi
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2000· 5 entries
Awarded Marcel Grossmann Award (2000).
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Awarded Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (2000).
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Awarded Order of Merit (2000).
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Won Karl Schwarzschild Medal (2000).
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Was appointed a Member of the Order of Merit (OM)
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1998· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by The Open University (1998).
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Won Helmholtz Medal (1998).
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Was elected Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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1997· 1 entry
With The Large, the Small and the Human Mind
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1995· 1 entry
The University of Glasgow (Doctor of Science, DSc) and University of Essex, both in 1996, from the University of St Andrews in 1997, and the Visva-Bharati University of Santiniketan (India) and Open University (Doctor of
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded Knight Bachelor (1994).
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Penrose was knighted for services to science
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Forder Lectureship (1993).
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1992· 1 entry
And an honorary degree from the University of Surrey in 1993
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1991· 2 entries
Awarded Naylor Prize and Lectureship (1991).
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Was awarded the Naylor Prize of the London Mathematical Society
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1990· 3 entries
Won Albert Einstein Medal (1990).
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Awarded Royal Society Science Books Prize (1990).
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Penrose was awarded the Albert Einstein Medal for outstanding work related to the work of Albert Einstein by the Albert Einstein Society (Switzerland)
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1989· 2 entries
Won IOP Dirac Medal (1989).
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Penrose was awarded the Dirac Medal and Prize of the British Institute of Physics
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Wolf Prize in Physics (1988).
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1985· 2 entries
Won Royal Medal (1985).
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Was awarded the Royal Society Royal Medal
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1984· 1 entry
Such patterns were observed in the arrangement of atoms in quasicrystals
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1983· 1 entry
Penrose was invited to teach at Rice University in Houston, by the then provost Bill Gordon
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1979· 1 entry
To formulate a stronger version called the "strong censorship hypothesis"
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1975· 2 entries
Won Eddington Medal (1975).
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Hawking and Penrose were jointly awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
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1973· 1 entry
Career landmark: Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics (1973–1999).
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1972).
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1971· 3 entries
Awarded Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1971).
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“Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.”
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Was awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics by the American Astronomical Society and American Institute of Physics
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1967· 1 entry
Penrose invented the twistor theory, which maps geometric objects in Minkowski space into the 4-dimensional complex space with the metric signature (2,2)
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1966· 1 entry
Awarded Adams Prize (1966).
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1964· 1 entry
While a reader at Birkbeck College, Penrose, per Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology, "revolutionised the mathematical tools that we use to analyse the properties of spacetime"
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1958· 1 entry
Studied at University of Cambridge (1955–1958).
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1957· 1 entry
With his thesis titled "Tensor Methods in Algebraic Geometry" supervised by the algebraist and geometer John A
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1955· 2 entries
Studied at University College London (1955).
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While a doctoral student, Penrose reintroduced the E
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1954· 1 entry
Penrose was attending a conference in Amsterdam when by chance he came across an exhibition of Escher's work
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1945· 1 entry
Studied at University College School (1945).
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1931· 1 entry
Born 1931-08-08.
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