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Sir Roger Penrose: The man who proved black holes weren’t ‘impossible’ – Yahoo News Australia
The UK scientist confessed to being a bit slow in class, but went on to win the Physics Nobel.
If you ever struggled with maths at school, you were in good company. Sir Roger Penrose, who on Tuesday won the Nobel Prize for Physics, would also scratch his head in class.
I was always very slow. I was good at maths, yes, but I didnt necessarily do very well in my tests, the Colchester-born (1931) laureate recalled.
But the teacher realised if he gave me enough time, I would do well. I basically had to do everything by working it out from first principles.
Whoever that teacher was and the …
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