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Roger Penrose

Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS is a British mathematical physicist, mathematician, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford.

Penrose has made contributions to the mathematical physics of general relativity and cosmology. He has received several prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize for physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems.

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English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher

Born 8 August 1931

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English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher

Born 8 August 1931

Subjects

Physics, Cosmology, Philosophy, Mathematics, Mathematical physics, Quantum theory, Science, Philosophie, Physics, philosophy, Space and time, Intellect, Intelligence artificielle, Relativity (Physics), Thinking, Thought and thinking, Artificial intelligence, Big bang theory, Biography, Congresses, Denken, Differential topology, Fizyka matematyczna, Godel's theorem, Goedel's theorem, Gödel's theorem

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Austria, Germany

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Abner Shimony, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961), Hermann Weyl (1885-1955), Nancy Cartwright, Roger Penrose, S. W. Hawking, Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)

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  • ROGER PENROSE
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  • Penrose , Roger -- 1931-....
  • Sir Roger Penrose
  • Penrose, Roger Sir

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