Sir Roger Penrose
(1931-), Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of OxfordSitter in 2 portraits
Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford. Born in Colchester, Essex, Penrose studied mathematics at University College London and St John's College, Cambridge. He is highly regarded for his many discoveries and publications in general relativity and cosmology. Penrose won the prestigious Wolf Foundation Prize for Physics.
by Dudley Reed
bromide fibre print, 1990
NPG x200055
by Lucinda Douglas-Menzies
bromide fibre print, 4 March 2008
NPG x132197
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