At one point in Patchen Barss’s new biography of Roger Penrose, we find the author seated at a table in the Oxford flat of his subject, about to interview him for the first time. It is 2018.

After the case was settled out of court, “Penrose tiles never again surprised anyone entering the loo,” writes Patchen Barss in “The Impossible Man,” his new biography of Sir Roger.

It’s a mathematically equivalent, alternative picture of ordinary space-time. There’s a way of taking physical phenomena in space-time and describing them in twistor space, or vice versa. Roger ...

Learn about Nobel laureate Roger Penrose's idea of how consciousness is caused by quantum processes. Nobel laureate Roger Penrose is widely held to be one of the most brilliant living physicists ...

The origin of consciousness is one of the greatest mysteries of science. One proposed solution, first suggested by Nobel Laureate and Oxford mathematician Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Stuart ...

Sir Roger Penrose. Nobel Laureate mathematical physicist Roger Penrose has said that the present universe did not start with the Big Bang and that there was another universe before the present one.

Last month Sir Roger Penrose was announced as the joint winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics. Sir Roger Penrose previously held a visiting Professorship at the Centre for Research in String ...

Roger Penrose is a leading British physicist and Cambridge alumnus with a diverse career spanning over 60 years. His influence pervades the scientific world, from the workings of artificial ...