Oliver Penrose

Oliver Penrose ( born June 6, 1929 in London ) is a British mathematician and physicist.

He is the son of the scientist Lionel Penrose and brother of the mathematician and physicist Roger Penrose and the chess master Jonathan Penrose. He is a mathematical physicist and is particularly concerned with statistical mechanics, thermodynamics and physical chemistry with. He was at University College London and King's College, Cambridge and his doctorate in Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley. He was then a post-doc at Lars Onsager.

Oliver Penrose was professor of mathematics first at the Open University in Milton Keynes, 1986 until his retirement in 1994 then. At Heriot -Watt University in Edinburgh His main area of ​​work is the mathematical treatment of models of statistical mechanics and the theory of phase transitions, including the kinetics of phase transitions in metals and physical chemistry of surfactants. From him comes the important in superconductivity and superfluids concept of off diagonal long range order. He also dealt with interpretation of quantum mechanics and physics of time's arrow.

His hobbies include music (piano and cello ) and chess.