Thomas Fink

A singular mind: Roger Penrose on his Nobel Prize

[Illustration by Morten Morland] 
issue 19 December 2020

Sir Roger Penrose was at school when he realised that his mind worked in an unusual way. ‘I thought, maybe when I go to university, I’ll find people who think like me,’ he tells me, at the beginning of what was to be a fascinating conversation, stretching long into the afternoon.

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