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Oliver Penrose

British physicist, mathematician

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Born 1929 · age 97United Kingdom
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    Born 1929
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Updated 2026-06-19

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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