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unusual facts about Roger Penrose


Biplab Dasgupta

In 1967 he received the PhD of London University as a member of SOAS for the thesis "Oil prices and the Indian market, 1886-1964" where his supervisor was the famous professor, Sir Roger Penrose.


C. V. Vishveshwara

"Black Holes, Gravitational Radiation and the Universe: Essays in Honour of C.V.Vishveshwara,- Bala R. Iyer and Biplab Bhawal(eds)", (Kluwer Academic Publishers (1999)) was published in his honor for one of his birthdays to which leading personalities in the field like Roger Penrose, Jacob Bekenstein, Abhay Ashtekar, Ashoke Sen etc., have contributed essays.

Conformal cyclic cosmology

The conformal cyclic cosmology (CCC) is a cosmological model in the framework of general relativity, advanced by the theoretical physicists Roger Penrose and Vahe Gurzadyan.

Penrose diagram

Penrose diagrams are more properly (but less frequently) called Penrose-Carter diagrams (or Carter-Penrose diagrams), acknowledging both Brandon Carter and Roger Penrose, who were the first researchers to employ them.


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