Penrose
Britishnoun
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An international team that includes Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Sir Roger Penrose has directly observed a long-predicted gravitational effect in a falling quantum object for the first time.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
Meanwhile, the Penrose Inquiry, a seven-year investigation launched by the Scottish government, was criticised as a whitewash when it was published in 2015.
From BBC ● May 20, 2024
The couple, Jon and Carie Hallford, who owned Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado Springs and Penrose, Colo., face 15 federal fraud charges, according to an indictment filed in U.S.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
Ponce, Quinones, Manjarrez and Flores are also members of sibling soul group the Altons; when we spoke, the latter two were at Riverside’s Penrose Studios working on a new record.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
The answer to this came out of a completely different approach introduced by a British mathematician and physicist, Roger Penrose, in 1965.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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