7 hours agoAbout 500 people attended Hawking's funeral
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(8 years ago)About 500 people attended Stephen Hawking's funeral. Those attending have gathered at Cambridge, where they have awarded their last honour to physicist Hawking, who died on March 14th at 76, broadcast the Associated Press. The Briton known for his work with black holes and [...]
About 500 people attended Stephen Hawking's funeral.
Those attending have gathered at Cambridge, where they have awarded their last honour to physicist Hawking, who died on March 14th at 76, broadcast the Associated Press.
The Briton known for his work on black holes and relativity is also the author of many scientific books, including “A short history of the time”. At the age of 22, Hawking was given only a few years of life after being diagnosed with a rare form of motor neurons.
The disease left him in a wheelchair and unable to speak, which he accomplished through a voice synthesis. In a statement to the media, his children, Lucy, Robert and Tim, said: “We are deeply sad that our dear father is no longer among us... He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live for many years”.
A book of condolences will open at Caius College in Cambridge, where Professor Hawking had studied.
He was the first to cast into the theory of cosmology as a union of quantum mechanics and relativity. He also unveiled his theory of black holes. Through his work with mathematician Sir Roger Penrose, he has proved that Einstein's relativity theory means that space and time would start at the great explosion (Big Bang) and bottom, in black holes.
