Author
Roger Penrose
b. August 8, 1931 · United Kingdom
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher, University teacher, Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Titles on list
1
Total weeks
13
Peak rank
#7
Biography
- Born
- August 8, 1931 · Colchester
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- English
- Education
- University College London, University of Cambridge, University College School
Awards & Honours
- 1966Adams Prize
- 1971Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
- 1972Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1975Eddington Medal
- 1985Royal Medal
- 1988Wolf Prize in Physics
- 1989IOP Dirac Medal
- 1990Albert Einstein Medal
- 1990Royal Society Science Books Prize
- 1991Naylor Prize and Lectureship
- 1993Forder Lectureship
- 1994Knight Bachelor
- 1998Helmholtz Medal
- 1998honorary doctorate
- 2000Karl Schwarzschild Medal
- 2000Marcel Grossmann Award
- 2000Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship
- 2000Order of Merit
- 2004De Morgan Medal
- 2004Amaldi Medal
- 2005honorary doctor of the University of Warsaw
- 2005Honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Louvain
- 2005Dalton Medal
- 2006Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics
- 2008Copley Medal
- 2008Clarivate Citation Laureates
- 2011Fonseca Prize
- 2019Pomeranchuk Prize
- 2020Nobel Prize in Physics
- Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
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