Sir Roger Penrose (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist and philosopher of science, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. 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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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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Born: 8 August 1931 (age 95), Colchester, Essex, England
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Born: 8 August 1931 (age 95), Colchester, Essex, England
Works In: Physics, Awards and Honours section, 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics
In 2020 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 also going to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy.
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He was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy", which he shared with Andrea Ghez and Roger Penrose.
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In 2020, Ghez shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Roger Penrose and Reinhard Genzel, for their discoveries relating to black holes.
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