He attended University College London and attained a first class degree in mathematics from University of London in 1952. Penrose studied at University College School. Penrose spent World War II as a child in Canada where his father worked in London, Ontario. Their stepfather was the mathematician and computer scientist Max Newman. Penrose is the brother of physicist Oliver Penrose, of geneticist Shirley Hodgson, and of chess Grandmaster Jonathan Penrose. His uncle was artist Roland Penrose, whose son with photographer Lee Miller is Antony Penrose. Elizabeth Josephine, daughter of Alexander Peckover, 1st Baron Peckover his maternal grandparents were physiologist John Beresford Leathes and Russian Jewish Sonia Marie Natanson. Doyle Penrose, an Irish-born artist, and The Hon. Early life and education īorn in Colchester, Essex, Roger Penrose is a son of medical doctor Margaret (Leathes) and psychiatrist and geneticist Lionel Penrose.
He is regarded as one of the greatest living physicists, mathematicians and scientists, and is particularly noted for the breadth and depth of his work in both natural and formal sciences. He has received several prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems, and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity". Penrose has contributed to the mathematical physics of general relativity and cosmology. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in 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. Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS HonFInstP (born 8 August 1931) is a British mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics.
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