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Great Minds: Stephen Hawking ? The Grand Design Of The Universe
Science & Reason on Facebook: tinyurl.com Great Minds, Great Words: Stephen Hawking ? The Grand Design Of The Universe ? Please subscribe to Science & Reason: ? www.YouTube.com ? www.YouTube.com ? www.YouTube.com ? www.YouTube.com ? Stephen Hawking is a British theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific career spans over forty years. His books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity and he is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and in 2009 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. Hawking was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years, taking up the post in 1979 and retiring on 1 October 2009. He is also a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and a Distinguished Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes. He has also achieved success with works of popular science in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general; these include the runaway best seller A Brief History of Time, which stayed on the British Sunday Times bestsellers list for a record-breaking 237 weeks. Stephen Hawking?s key scientific works to date have included providing, with Roger Penrose, theorems regarding ?
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