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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born 8 August 1931, Penrose built his career at Oxford, where he became Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics. In 1988 he shared the Wolf Prize with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems; the 2020 Nobel followed for showing that black hole formation is a robust prediction of general relativity. Along the way he invented the Penrose triangle, corresponded with M. C. Escher (shaping Waterfall and Ascending and Descending), and devised an aperiodic tiling that preceded the discovery of quasicrystals. His 1989 book The Emperor's New Mind won the Royal Society Science Books Prize and laid out his controversial ideas on consciousness; The Road to Reality arrived in 2004, billed as a complete guide to the laws of the universe.