Roger Penrose

Awards

1. 1988

   Wolf Prize — Physics

   Physics

   for their brilliant development of the theory of general relativity, in which they have shown the necessity for cosmological singularities and have elucidated the physics of black holes. In this work they have greatly enlarged our understanding of the origin and possible fate of the Universe.

2. 2020

   Nobel Prize — Physics

   Physics

   for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity