| Roger Penrose  Born: 8-Aug-1931
Birthplace: Colchester, Essex, England
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Mathematician, Physicist Nationality: England
Executive summary: Cosmologist and theoretical physicist Mathematician, theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author. At Oxford. Father: Lionel S. Penrose
Mother: Margaret Leathes
Brother: Oliver Penrose (mathematician)
Brother: Jonathan Penrose (chess grandmaster)
Wife: Vanessa Thomas (two children)
University: PhD Mathematics, Cambridge University (1958)
Professor: Mathematics, Oxford University (1973-)
The Third Culture
Royal Society 1972
National Academy of Sciences 1998
London Mathematical Society
Eddington Medal 1975
Royal Medal 1985
Wolf Prize in Physics 1988 (with Stephen Hawking)
Albert Einstein Medal 1990
Knighthood 1994
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
A Brief History of Time (Oct-1991) Himself
Author of books:
Techniques of Differential Topology in Relativity (1972)
The Emperor's New Mind (1989, physics)
Shadows of the Mind (1994)
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind (1997)
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe (2004, physics)
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