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Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Roger Penrose Kt OM FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and emeritus fellow of Wadham College.
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Penrose won the Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly, in 2020.[1] Previously he had won the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems.[2]