Penrose may refer to: Penrose, Arlington, Virginia, a neighborhood Penrose, Colorado, a town Penrose, St. Louis, Missouri, a neighborhood Penrose, Philadelphia...
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Antony William Roland Penrose (born 9 September 1947) is a British photographer. The son of Sir Roland Penrose and Lee Miller, Penrose is director of the...
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Sir Roland Algernon Penrose CBE (14 October 1900 – 23 April 1984) was an English artist, historian and poet. He was a major promoter and collector of...
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Sir Roger Penrose (born 8 August 1931) is a British mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is...
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The Penrose triangle, also known as the Penrose tribar, the impossible tribar, or the impossible triangle, is a triangular impossible object, an optical...
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The Penrose stairs or Penrose steps, also dubbed the impossible staircase, is an impossible object created by Oscar Reutersvärd in 1937 and later independently...
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A Penrose tiling is an example of an aperiodic tiling. Here, a tiling is a covering of the plane by non-overlapping polygons or other shapes, and a tiling...
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Penrose is a Cornish-language surname. The surname Penrose is derived from one of the places called Penrose in England and Wales: these are found in ten...
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The Penrose interpretation is a speculation by Roger Penrose about the relationship between quantum mechanics and general relativity. Penrose proposes...
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In mathematics, and in particular linear algebra, the Moore–Penrose inverse A + {\displaystyle A^{+}} of a matrix A {\displaystyle A} , often called...
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Penrose RHA JP (9 May 1862 – 2 January 1932) was an Irish painter known for his religious and mythological paintings. He is father of Lionel Penrose and...
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Lionel Sharples Penrose, FRS (11 June 1898 – 12 May 1972) was an English psychiatrist, medical geneticist, paediatrician, mathematician and chess theorist...
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In theoretical physics, a Penrose diagram (named after mathematical physicist Roger Penrose) is a two-dimensional diagram capturing the causal relations...
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The Penrose process (also called Penrose mechanism) is theorised by Sir Roger Penrose as a means whereby energy can be extracted from a rotating black...
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Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose (April 23, 1907 – July 21, 1977), was an American photographer and photojournalist. Miller was a fashion model in...
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Valentine Penrose (née Boué; 1 January 1898 – 7 August 1978), was a French surrealist poet, author, and collagist. Valentine Boué was born in 1898 to...
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Penrose Hospital is a 364-bed hospital located in Colorado Springs, Colorado and owned by Penrose-Saint Francis Health Services. The campus includes Penrose...
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John David Penrose (born 22 June 1964) is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Weston-super-Mare from 2005 until 2024. A member...
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Oliver Penrose FRS FRSE (born 6 June 1929) is a British theoretical physicist. He is the son of the scientist Lionel Penrose and brother of the mathematical...
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type being "active". The Penrose drain is named after American gynecologist Charles Bingham Penrose (1862–1925). A Penrose drain removes fluid from a...
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Patricia Penrose (born 9 April 1970) is a British actress, singer & broadcaster. She is best known for her role as Gina Ward in ITV's long-running 1960s...
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Farleys House (section Lee Miller and Roland Penrose)
residents, the photographer Lee Miller and the Surrealist artist Roland Penrose. It also houses a collection of contemporary art by their friends Pablo...
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The Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems (after Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking) are a set of results in general relativity that attempt to answer the...
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The Penrose Annual was a London-based review of graphic arts, printed nearly annually from 1895 to 1982. Penrose began in 1895 as Process Work Yearbook...
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Jonathan Penrose, OBE (7 October 1933 – 30 November 2021) was an English chess player, who held the titles Grandmaster (1993) and International Correspondence...
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Penrose is a census-designated place (CDP) and post office located in and governed by Fremont County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the...
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Penrose (Cornish: Penros) is a house (in private ownership) and National Trust estate amounting to 1536 acres, east of Porthleven and in the civil parish...
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Penrose Peak may refer to: Penrose Peak (Montana) Penrose Peak (Wyoming) Mount Penrose (Montana) Mount Penrose (British Columbia, Canada) This disambiguation...
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Barrie Penrose (26 January 1942 – 5 July 2020) was a British investigative journalist, interviewer and trainer. Born in Croydon, Penrose was educated...
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Elizabeth "Betty" Penrose Howkins (née Penrose, 1900–1972) was an American fashion journalist who was the editor of British Vogue, and Glamour, and women's...
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