Portrait of Roger Penrose
Date
2021
Sitter
Roger Penrose (1931, British) , Mathematician
Creator
Anne-Katrin Purkiss (1959, British/German) , Photographer
Object type
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Roger Penrose, taken outside the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, seated at the entrance with the Penrose paving, October 2021.
Sir Roger Penrose, British mathematician and theoretical physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1972. He was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, ‘for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity’. He was also awarded the Copley Medal in 2008, ‘for his beautiful and original insights into many areas of mathematics and mathematical physics'. As well as the Royal Medal In 1985, ‘for his fundamental contributions to the theory of gravitational collapse and to other geometric aspects of theoretical physics’.
Sir Roger Penrose, British mathematician and theoretical physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1972. He was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, ‘for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity’. He was also awarded the Copley Medal in 2008, ‘for his beautiful and original insights into many areas of mathematics and mathematical physics'. As well as the Royal Medal In 1985, ‘for his fundamental contributions to the theory of gravitational collapse and to other geometric aspects of theoretical physics’.
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