Sir Roger Penrose OM
Patron
Roger Penrose is a mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College.
Drawings are an invaluable aid to my mathematical thinking and an essential ingredient of most of my mathematical expositions
Sir Roger Penrose OM
He has received a number of prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize for physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking for their contribution to our understanding of the universe. He is renowned for his work in mathematical physics, in particular his contributions to general relativity and cosmology. He is also a recreational mathematician and philosopher.
The Big Draw has rekindled our natural capacities for self-expression through drawing in its many manifestations
Sir Roger Penrose OM