Famous People with Name Penrose

Sir Roger Penrose            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Sir Roger Penrose: an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. 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 and has an Erdos number of three.Roger Penrose is a son of Lionel S. Penrose and Margaret Leathes[4] Roger is the brother of mathematician Oliver Penrose and correspondence chess grandmaster Jonathan Penrose. Penrose was precocious as a child.[5] Penrose graduated with a first class degree in mathematics from University College London.

Edith Elura Tilton Penrose            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edith Elura Tilton Penrose: was an American-born British economist whose best known work is "The Theory of the Growth of the Firm", which describes the ways which firms grow and how fast they do. Writing in The Independent the economist Sir Alec Cairncross, stated that the book brought Dr. Penrose "instant recognition as a creative thinker, and its importance to the analysis of the job of management has been increasingly realized."[1]She received a bachelor's degree in 1936 from the University of California at Berkeley. In 1936 she married David Burton Denhardt who died two years later in a hunting accident. In 1945 she married Ernest F. Penrose, a British-born economist and writer who had been one of her teachers at Berkeley. After working for the American Embassy in London, she received her doctorate in 1950.[2] Her first book, Economics of the International Patent System, was published in 1951.

Jonathan Penrose            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Jonathan Penrose: is an English chess player, emeritus Grandmaster, and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1983) who won the British Chess Championship ten times between 1958 and 1969. He is the son of Lionel Penrose, a world famous professor of genetics, and

Patricia "Tricia" Penrose            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Patricia "Tricia" Penrose: an English actress and singer.She is best known for her role as Gina Ward in ITV1's long-running 1960s drama Heartbeat. She has also appeared in The Royal, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Boon and Dancin' Thru the Dark.Penrose has made several attempts to break into the music industry. She has released two singles – "Where Did Our Love Go?" (1996) and "Don't Wanna Be Alone" (2000); neither of which was especially successful. In 2002 she reached the final of A Song for Europe (the competition to select the UK's Eurovision Song Contest entry) but did not win. She has also sung a number of times on Heartbeat.

R. A. F. Penrose            Origin/Culture/Country: American

R. A. F. Penrose: was an American mining geologist and entrepreneur.Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose, Jr., better known as R.A.F. Penrose throughout his career, graduated in 1885 with a Ph.D. from Harvard for work on phosphates. Later, he performed geological surveys in