What is Roger Penrose?
[[File:Roger Penrose IMG 0059 (cropped).jpg|right|thumb|Professor Sir Roger Penrose in 2012]] {{nobelprize|Physics}} '''Sir Roger Penrose''' [[Kt]] [[Order of Merit (Commonwealth)|OM]] [[Royal Society|FRS]] (born 8 August 1931) is an [[England|English]] mathematical [[physicist]]. He is [[Emeritus]] Rouse Ball [[Professor of Mathematics]] at the [[University of Oxford]] and emeritus fellow of [[Wadham College]]. Penrose won the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]], jointly, in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Roger-Penrose|title=Roger Penrose &#124; Biography, Books, Awards, & Facts|access-date=7 March 2021|archive-date=7 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307224416/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Roger-Penrose|url-status=live}}</ref> Previously he had won the 1988 [[Wolf Prize]] in [[Physics]], which he shared with [[Stephen Hawking]] for the [[Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Siegel|first=Matthew|date=8 January 2008|title=Wolf Foundation Honors Hawking and Penrose for Work in Relativity|url=https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.2810893|journal=Physics Today|language=en|volume=42|issue=1|pages=97–98|doi=10.1063/1.2810893|issn=0031-9228|access-date=7 October 2020|archive-date=7 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207185551/https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.2810893|url-status=live}}</ref> He was elected a member of the [[Academia Europaea]] in 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Penrose_Roger |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021045154/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Penrose_Roger |title=Professor Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS |publisher=Academia Europaea |archive-date=21 October 2020}}</ref> ==Works== He is renowned for his work in [[astrophysics]] with [[Stephen Hawking]], in particular his contributions to [[general relativity]] and [[physical cosmology|cosmology]]. He is also a [[recreational mathematics|recreational mathematician]] and [[philos