Lionel Penrose

Lionel Penrose
Penrose, c. 1971
Born
Lionel Sharples Penrose

(1898-06-11)11 June 1898[1]
London, UK[2]
Died12 May 1972(1972-05-12) (aged 73)
London, UK
Spouse
Margaret Leathes
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(m. 1928)​
ChildrenOliver Penrose
Roger Penrose
Jonathan Penrose
Shirley Hodgson
FatherJames Penrose
Alma materSt John's College, Cambridge
University of Vienna
King's College London
Known forPenrose triangle
Penrose method
Penrose stairs[4]
Penrose's Law[5][6]
Penrose square root law
Penrose–Banzhaf index
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society[1]
Lasker Award[3]
James Spence Medal 1964.
Scientific career
FieldsPediatrics, Psychiatry, Genetics
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
University College London

Lionel Sharples Penrose, FRS (11 June 1898 – 12 May 1972) was an English psychiatrist, medical geneticist, paediatrician, mathematician and chess theorist, who carried out pioneering work on the genetics of intellectual disability.[6][7] Penrose was initially the Galton professor of eugenics (1945–1963) at University College London, before having his title changed to professor of human genetics (1963–1965) at his request. He was later emeritus professor.[8]

  1. ^ a b Harris, H (January 1997). "Lionel Sharples Penrose, 1898–1972". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 19: 521–561. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1973.0019. JSTOR 769572. PMID 11615728.
  2. ^ https://jmg.bmj.com/content/jmedgenet/9/3/253.full.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  3. ^ "Lasker Award to LS Penrose". Archived from the original on 16 February 2016. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
  4. ^ Penrose, L. S.; Penrose, R. (February 1958). "Impossible Objects: A Special Type of Visual Illusion". British Journal of Psychology. 49 (1): 31–33. doi:10.1111/j.2044-8295.1958.tb00634.x. PMID 13536303.
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  6. ^ a b Penrose, L. S. (March 1939). "Mental Disease and Crime: Outline of a Comparative Study of European Statistics". British Journal of Medical Psychology. 18 (1): 1–15. doi:10.1111/j.2044-8341.1939.tb00704.x.
  7. ^ Bewley, Thomas (2 January 2018). "Lionel Penrose, Fellow of the Royal Society". Psychiatric Bulletin. 24 (12): 469. doi:10.1192/pb.24.12.469.
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