The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
Awarded on: 2020-10-06
"for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity"
Affiliations:
- University of Oxford – Oxford, United Kingdom
Roger Penrose
Born: 1931-08-08 in Colchester, United Kingdom
Gender: male
Field: British mathematical physicist (born 1931)
Biography
Sir Roger Penrose is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford, an emeritus fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and an honorary fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and University College London.