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08/08/1931 English physicist Roger Penrose is born

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As a physicist, he made many contributions to the general relativity, especially the theory describing black holes. Most famous of them is the set of results, which he produced with Stephen Hawking, called Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems. Later he became interested in philosophy of science and question of consciousness.