Professor Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS#
| Membership Number: | 5204 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/roger.penrose |
Present and Previous Positions
- Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University
- Emeritus fellow of Wadham College, Oxford
- Honorary fellow of St John's College, Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Relativity
- Mathematical physics
- Philosopy of physics
- Cosmology
- Brain science
Honours and Awards
- 1966 Adams Prize
- 1971 Heineman Prize
- 1972 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1975 Eddington Medal
- 1985 Royal Medal
- 1988 Wolf Prize
- 1989 Dirac Medal
- 1990 Albert Einstein Medal
- 1991 Naylor Prize and Lectureship
- 1997 - 2000 James Scott Prize Lectureship
- 2000 Karl Schwarzschild Medal
- 2004 De Morgan Medal
- 2006 Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics
- 2008 Copley Medal
- 2011 Fonseca Prize by the University of Santiago de Compostela
- 2012 Richard R. Ernst Medal by ETH Zürich for his contributions to science and strengthening the connection between science and society
- 2018 The Clay Award for Dissemination of Mathematical Knowledge
- 2020 Academia Europaea Erasmus Medal
- 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Honorary Degrees
- 1992 University of New Brunswick, Canada
- 1993 University of Surrey
- 1994 University of Bath
- 1995 University of London
- 1996 University of Glasgow
- 1996 University of Essex
- 1997 University of St Andrews
- 1998 University of Santiniketan, India
- 1998 Open University, UK
- 2002 University of Southampton
- 2004 University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- 2005 University of Leuven, Belgium
- 2005 Warsaw University
- 2005 Athens University of Economics and Business
- 2006 University of York
- 2012 University of Dublin
- 2012 National Technical University of Ukraine
- 2015 CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
- 2019 Kings College London
