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Roger Penrose

8 August 1931 -

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.

Source: Roger Penrose on Wikipedia.

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Subjects
Philosophy, Philosophie, Intellect, Intelligence artificielle, Physics, Physics, philosophy, Science, Thinking, Thought and thinking, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial intelligence, Biography, Denken, Godel's theorem, Goedel's theorem, Gödel's theorem, Kunstmatige intelligentie, Pensée, Physique, Quantum theory, Ancient Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence - General, Aspect psychologique, Audio Adult: Other, Austria, biography
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Austria, Germany
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Abner Shimony, Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961), Hermann Weyl (1885-1955), Nancy Cartwright, S. W. Hawking

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  • Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics Roger Penrose

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March 9, 2024 Edited by kathrinpassig merge authors
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