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Oliver Penrose
British physicist, mathematician · United Kingdom · Academics · Born 1929 · age 97
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Something wrong?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.
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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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