1931 - Today
Sir Roger Penrose (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist, mathematician, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, an emeritus fellow of Wadham College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and of University College London (UCL).Penrose has made contributions to the mathematical physics of general relativity and cosmology. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roger Penrose has received more than 2,167,954 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Roger Penrose is the 142nd most popular physicist (down from 136th in 2019), the 453rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 354th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular British Physicist.
Roger Penrose is most famous for his work in mathematics, which includes a collaboration with Stephen Hawking on the Penrose-Hawking Singularity Theorems. He is also famous for his work in physics, such as his work on black holes and the Big Bang theory.
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Among physicists, Roger Penrose ranks 142 out of 721. Before him are Alfred Kastler, Maurice Wilkins, Julius von Mayer, François Englert, Owen Chamberlain, and Hans Bethe. After him are Ilya Frank, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, Frits Zernike, Benjamin Thompson, Murray Gell-Mann, and William Shockley.
1902 - 1984
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 136
1916 - 2004
HPI: 73.50
Rank: 137
1814 - 1878
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 138
1932 - Present
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 139
1920 - 2006
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 140
1906 - 2005
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 141
1931 - Present
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 142
1908 - 1990
HPI: 73.38
Rank: 143
1799 - 1864
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 144
1888 - 1966
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 145
1753 - 1814
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 146
1929 - 2019
HPI: 73.03
Rank: 147
1910 - 1989
HPI: 72.94
Rank: 148
Among people born in 1931, Roger Penrose ranks 29. Before him are Josef Masopust, D. B. Cooper, Jim Jones, Guy Debord, Desmond Tutu, and João Gilberto. After him are John le Carré, William Shatner, Larry Hagman, Rupert Murdoch, Anne Bancroft, and Viktor Korchnoi.
1931 - 2015
HPI: 74.70
Rank: 23
1931 - 1971
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 24
1931 - 1978
HPI: 74.36
Rank: 25
1931 - 1994
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 26
1931 - Present
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 27
1931 - 2019
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 28
1931 - Present
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 29
1931 - 2020
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 30
1931 - Present
HPI: 73.28
Rank: 31
1931 - 2012
HPI: 73.05
Rank: 32
1931 - Present
HPI: 72.98
Rank: 33
1931 - 2005
HPI: 72.85
Rank: 34
1931 - 2016
HPI: 72.80
Rank: 35
Among people born in United Kingdom, Roger Penrose ranks 453 out of 6,924. Before him are Charlie Watts (1941), Henry Every (1659), Robert Brown (1773), Stirling Moss (1929), Anthony Burgess (1917), and Deborah Kerr (1921). After him are Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943), Æthelflæd (869), Edward the Confessor (1003), Donald Winnicott (1896), Thomas Bayes (1702), and Mike Oldfield (1953).
1941 - Present
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 447
1659 - 1699
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 448
1773 - 1858
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 449
1929 - 2020
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 450
1917 - 1993
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 451
1921 - 2007
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 452
1931 - Present
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 453
1943 - Present
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 454
869 - 918
HPI: 73.38
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1003 - 1066
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 456
1896 - 1971
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 457
1702 - 1761
HPI: 73.36
Rank: 458
1953 - Present
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 459
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Roger Penrose ranks 23. Before him are Charles Glover Barkla (1877), C. F. Powell (1903), Henry Moseley (1887), Thomas Young (1773), George Paget Thomson (1892), and Edward Victor Appleton (1892). After him are William Shockley (1910), David Brewster (1781), Osborne Reynolds (1842), Freeman Dyson (1923), Joseph Swan (1828), and David J. Thouless (1934).
1877 - 1944
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 17
1903 - 1969
HPI: 74.93
Rank: 18
1887 - 1915
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 19
1773 - 1829
HPI: 74.29
Rank: 20
1892 - 1975
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 21
1892 - 1965
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 22
1931 - Present
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 23
1910 - 1989
HPI: 72.94
Rank: 24
1781 - 1868
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 25
1842 - 1912
HPI: 71.89
Rank: 26
1923 - 2020
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 27
1828 - 1914
HPI: 70.63
Rank: 28
1934 - 2019
HPI: 70.58
Rank: 29