El hombre imposible : Roger Penrose y el precio de la genialidad

The story of the man who pushed physics to its limits... and to his own. A life of discovery, genius, and isolation. Roger Penrose, one of the great geniuses of the 20th century, revolutionized our understanding of space, time, and black holes. A Nobel Prize winner in Physics, collaborator of Stephen Hawking, and creator of some of the boldest and most controversial theories about the universe, Penrose has been a key figure in contemporary science. However, his genius was accompanied by a great difficulty in connecting with other people. The Impossible Man is the first comprehensive and profoundly human biography of Penrose. Throughout these pages, science journalist Patchen Barss recounts, with precision and empathy, the great scientific milestones and the many personal paradoxes of a man who lived between transcendent mathematics and emotional turmoil. From his childhood marked by his father's coldness to his visionary ideas about the universe and consciousness, this portrait reveals the price—often very high—of a life dedicated entirely to thought.