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.
- Occupation
- mathematician, physicist, university teacher, theoretical physicist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- June 6, 1929, January 1, 1929
