# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oliver-penrose
# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:57:41.805Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/oliver-penrose"
name: "Oliver Penrose"
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description: "Oliver Penrose is a British theoretical physicist and emeritus professor at Heriot-Watt University. His topics of interest include statistical mechanics, phase transitions in metals and the physical chemistry of surfactants. He is known for introducing the concept of off-diagonal long-range order, important to the present understanding of superfluids and superconductors. He is also known for the Penrose criterion in plasma physics."
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birthDate: "1929-06-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump