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The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius

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A "beautifully composed and revealing" (Financial Times) biography of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger Penrose—"a stunning achievement" (Kai Bird, American Prometheus).


When he was six years old, Roger Penrose discovered a sundial in a clearing near his house. Through that machine made of ligh...