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Stephen Hawking
Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking often speaks about science, the universe, formation of life, and science education. Hawking is a mathematics professor at the University of Cambridge who has done groundbreaking work on black holes and the... [more]
Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking often speaks about science, the universe, formation of life, and science education. Hawking is a mathematics professor at the University of Cambridge who has done groundbreaking work on black holes and the origins of the universe. He has the paralyzing disease ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
Over at the Nobel betting pool, some have put forward Stephen Hawking as a possible candidate for the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics. While it would be great to see Hawking receive this prize, it just ain't gonna happen this year, for a number of very good reasons.
"Why?" you may ask. Hawking's most noteworthy and popular work has been in black holes, specifically in the application of quantum physics to black holes, and even more specifically...
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