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Roger Penrose
Birth at
8 August 1931
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An outstanding scientist of our time, actively working in various fields of mathematics, general relativity and quantum theory; author of the theory of twistors.
R. Penrose heads the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, and is an honorary professor of many foreign universities and academies. He is a member of the Royal Society of London. Among his awards are the Wolf Prize (together with S. Hawking), the Dirac Medal, the Albert Einstein Prize and the Royal Society Medal. In 1994,
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An outstanding scientist of our time, actively working in various fields of mathematics, general relativity and quantum theory; author of the theory of twistors.
R. Penrose heads the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, and is an honorary professor of many foreign universities and academies. He is a member of the Royal Society of London. Among his awards are the Wolf Prize (together with S. Hawking), the Dirac Medal, the Albert Einstein Prize and the Royal Society Medal. In 1994, for outstanding services in the development of science, he was awarded the title of Sir by the Queen of England.