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1. Roger Penrose (1931 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Penrose/

   11 Dec 2025: Roger Penrose's parents, Lionel Sharples Penrose and Margaret Leathes, were both medically trained. ... O Garcia-Prada, Interview with Sir Roger Penrose, Mathematics Today (December 2001), 170-175.

2. Pictures of Roger Penrose - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Penrose/pictdisplay/

   2 Jan 2026: Photograph by Paul Halmos.

3. Penrose album page

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/Store/penrose.html

   19 Nov 2023: Click on a thumbnail to see the full image. Djibouti 2020.

4. Fellow of the Royal Society - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/FRS/

   16 Jul 2026: Anthony Spencer 1987. Oliver Penrose 1987.

5. Hawking Books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Hawking_books/

   6 Oct 2025: 3. The Nature of Space and Time (1996), by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose. ... Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose are, without question, the leading developers of our modern view of the structure of space and time.

6. Report on the 2011 Leicester BMC - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/BMC/2011/Report2011/

   7 Mar 2023: The principal academic activities consisted of. 7 Plenary sessions (invited speakers Gowers, Lindenstrauss, Pedit, Rouquier and Vogtmann, invited public speaker Penrose, and a plenary session on mathematical developments at the EPSRC ... Roger Penrose's

7. John Horton Conway - Guardian obituary - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Conway_Guardian/

   7 Mar 2023: Around 1976, he helped Roger Penrose refine the analysis of what we now know as Penrose tiles, and he came up with the catchy terms kite and dart for the two

8. Black holes - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Black_Holes/

   7 Mar 2023: By the end of the 1960s, both Werner Israel and British mathematician Roger Penrose with John Wheeler had helped revolutionise the study of black holes. ... Penrose and Wheeler however argued that due to the rapid movements involved in a star's collapse,

9. Edinburgh Mathematical Society Lecturers 1883-2024 - MacTutor History …

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/EMS/ems_lecturers/

   12 May 2026: Below we list venues, authors of papers/talks, affiliations where known, and titles for meetings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society from 1883, the year of the founding of the Society, to the present day. Some of those listed were not present at

10. Academia Europaea - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/Academia_Europaea/

    6 Dec 2025: The concept of a 'European Academy of Sciences' was raised at a meeting in Paris of the European Ministers of Science in 1985. The initiative was taken by the Royal Society of London which resulted in a meeting in London in June 1986 of Arnold