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Clement-Jones family - Person Sheet
Clement-Jones family - Person Sheet
Name
Oliver PENROSE FRS FRSE
, 10522
Birth
1929
Father
Lionel Sharples PENROSE MD FRCP FRS
, 10520 (1898-1972)
Mother
Margaret LEATHES
, 10521
Notes for Oliver PENROSE FRS FRSE
Oliver Penrose
FRS
,
FRSE
(born 1929) is a
British
theoretical
physicist
.[1]
He is the son of the scientist
Lionel Penrose
, brother of the mathematical
physicist
Roger Penrose
, and brother of
chess master
Jonathan Penrose
.[2][3]
He was associated for seventeen years with the
Open University
, and was a Professor of Mathematics at
Heriot-Watt University
in
Edinburgh
from 1986 until his retirement in 1994. He holds the title of Professor
Emeritus
at Heriot-Watt, and remains active in research there. His areas of interest include
statistical mechanics
,[4]
phase transitions
in
metals
, and
physical chemistry
of
surfactants
. He is particularly known for the concept of off-diagonal long-range order, which is central to our present-day understanding of superfluids and superconductors. Other more abstract topics in which he has worked include understanding the physical basis for the
direction of time
and
interpretations of quantum mechanics
.[
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