Roger Penrose(1931)
PhysicsSir 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 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".
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Top publications by citation countThe LARES 2 satellite, general relativity and fundamental physics
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Quantum state reduction, and Newtonian twistor theory
Cosmic thoughts
Gluing Non-commutative Twistor Spaces
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Mysteries and False Explanations
Gluing Noncommutative Twistor Spaces
Considering Entropy
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