Skip to main content
Collection
Collection
Learning
The group
Visit us
Expand child menu
Locomotion
National Railway Museum
National Science and Media Museum
Science and Industry Museum
Science and Innovation Park
Science Museum
Collection
Search
About
Search
About
Collection
Learning
The group
Visit us
Expand child menu
Locomotion
National Railway Museum
National Science and Media Museum
Science and Industry Museum
Science and Innovation Park
Science Museum
Lionel Sharples Penrose
1898 - 1972
occupation:
Physician
Nationality:
British
born in:
London
,
Greater London
,
England
,
United Kingdom
father of Roger Penrose (b. 1931)
Related Objects
Thirteen puzzles
First models of the 'impossible triangle' and 'impossible staircase'
Wooden puzzle
Representation of Republican opinion in the USA
Loose pieces of models demonstrating self-reproducing mechanisms
Drawing of models demonstrating self-reproducing mechanisms
Finger print models
Collection of models demonstrating self-reproducing mechanisms in chemistry and biochemistry
3D Histogram
Karyotype made by Lionel Penrose, Ca. 1963
One of twenty wooden interlocking models with eight pieces
See more related objects