Lionel Penrose

Sir Roger Penrose (Eng. Roger Penrose; born August 8, 1931, Colchester, England) is a British physicist and mathematician working in various areas of mathematics, general relativity and quantum theory; author of the theory of twistors.Parents - Lionel Sharples Penrose [en] (1898-1972) and Margaret Leathes (Margaret Leathes, 1901-1989) - had a medical education, his mother was a doctor, his father was a psychiatrist and medical geneticist, a member of the Royal Society. Penrose was born during their stay in Colchester, where his father was involved in a research project. Brothers - mathematician and physicist Oliver Penrose [en] and psychologist and chess player JonathIn 1939, the family moved to the United States and then to Canada - to the city of London in Ontario, where Roger attended school. At the same time, his interest in mathematics began to form.an Penrose, sister - oncogeneticist Shirley Hodgson.