page_title: List of contributors to general relativity
section_title: P
hierarchical_section_title: List of contributors to general relativity / P
caption_attribution_description: English: Professor Sir Roger Penrose (born 8 August 1931) OM, FRS is an English mathematical physicist renowned for his work in mathematical physics, in particular his contributions to general relativity and cosmology. He is also a recreational mathematician and philosopher.
context_page_description: This is a partial list of persons who have made major contributions to the development of general relativity, as acknowledged by standard texts on the subject. Some related lists are mentioned at the bottom of the page.
context_section_description: Achilles Papapetrou (chart for Ernst vacuum family, Majumdar-Papapetrou electrovacuums, Dixon-Papapetrou equations),
  Paul Painlevé (Gullstrand-Painlevé coordinates),
  Roger Penrose (Hawking-Penrose singularity theorems, Penrose diagrams, techniques from algebraic geometry and differential topology, Penrose limits, cosmic censorship hypotheses, Penrose inequalities, geometry of gravitational plane waves, impulsive waves, Penrose-Khan colliding plane wave, Newman-Penrose formalism, Weyl curvature hypothesis, highly influential monograph),
  Alexei Zinovievich Petrov (Petrov classification of algebraic properties of Weyl curvature tensor),
  Tsvi Piran (gravitational collapse),
  Felix A. E. Pirani (gravitational radiation, Petrov-Pirani classification of algebraic properties of Weyl curvature tensor),
  Jerzy F. Plebański (Plebanski vacuum, Plebanski action),
  Eric Poisson (black hole interiors, mass inflation, post-Newtonian approximation, monographs),
  William H. Press (gravitational-wave astronomy, problem book),
  Frans Pretorius (numerical relativity simulation)
  Richard H. Price (Price's theorem, books),
caption: Roger Penrose
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