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| Author Bio| Roger Penrose | | Penrose received a Ph.D. in 1957 from Cambridge University. He then became a professor of applied mathematics at Birkbeck College in 1966 and a Rouse Ball professor of mathematics at Oxford University in 1973. Penrose has done much to elucidate the fundamental properties of black holes. With Stephen Hawking, he proved a theorem of Albert Einstein's general relativity, asserting that at the center of a black hole there must evolve a "space-time singularity" of zero volume and infinite density, in which the laws of physics do not apply. In 1976, Penrose described a process for the extraction of energy from a black hole, as well as how rotational energy of the black hole is transferred to a particle outside the hole. In addition, Penrose has done much to develop the mathematics needed to unite general relativity, which deals with the gravitational interactions of matter, and quantum mechanics, which describes all other interactions. For his contributions, Penrose was made a Knight of the British Empire. |
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