penrose_awards

What did you get Roger?

__// I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems. ~ RP//__

Roger Penrose is the recipient of many internationally aclaimed awards

- He was elected a fellow of the Royal London Society (1972)

- The Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.

- Along with Stephen Hawking the awarded the prestigious Wolf Foundation Prize for Physics

- The Dirac Medal and Prize of the British Institute of Physics

- He was awarded the Albert Einstein Medal for outstanding work related to the work of Albert Einstein by the Albert Einstein Society

- The Naylor Prize of the London Mathematical Society

- He was knighted for services to science.

- Elected Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences

- Awarded the De Morgan Medal for his wide and original contributions to mathematical physics

- Has been awarded an honorary doctorate (Honoris Causa) by Warsaw University and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)

- In 2006 by the University of York

- In 2008 Penrose was awarded the Copley Medal.

- He is also a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association