Penrose, Sir Roger

Penrose, Sir Roger

▪ British mathematician
born Aug. 8, 1931, Colchester, Essex, Eng.

      British mathematician and relativist who in the 1960s calculated many of the basic features of black holes (black hole).

      After obtaining a Ph.D. in algebraic geometry from the University of Cambridge in 1957, Penrose held temporary posts at a number of universities in both England and America. From 1964 to 1973 he served as reader and eventually professor of applied mathematics at Birkbeck College, London. From 1973 he held the Rouse-Ball chair of mathematics at the University of Oxford. He was knighted for his services to science in 1994.

      In 1969, with Stephen Hawking (Hawking, Stephen W.), Penrose proved that all matter within a black hole collapses to a singularity, a geometric point in space where mass is compressed to infinite density and zero volume. Penrose also developed a method of mapping the regions of space-time surrounding a black hole. (Space-time is a four-dimensional continuum comprising three dimensions of space and one of time.) Such a map, which is called a Penrose diagram, allows one to visualize the effects of gravitation upon an entity approaching a black hole.

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