VISIONARY PHYSICIST STEPHEN HAWKING DIES AT 76

Author – STEVE HUFF, March 14, 2018

Stephen Hawking, towering genius and miraculous survivor, has died. A statement from Hawking’s family said the astrophysicist “died peacefully at his home in Cambridge” England.

Hawking—compared throughout his life to scientific greats such as Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton—achieved fame in part through his bestseller A Brief History of Time. He was also legendary for surviving a debilitating muscular disease that kills many sufferers just a few years after they develop symptoms.

Hawking’s early career and the onset of his disease—diagnosed early on as ALS, though later theorized to be a different nerve disorder—were portrayed in the 2014 hit movie The Theory of Everything, starring Eddie Redmayne.

If any life was worth a movie treatment, it was Stephen Hawking’s. His scientific achievements alone were astonishing: with two colleagues, he established four laws governing black hole mechanics; his theory that black holes emit a particular kind of radiation led to the term, “Hawking Radiation’; with James Hartle, he modeled the Universe’s beginning stages.

The most well-known voice of popular science, Neil deGrasse Tyson, tweeted that Hawking “left an intellectual vacuum in his wake.”

Hawking will be remembered by history for his genius as well as his efforts to bring sophisticated scientific ideas to a broader audience. One of his lesser-known gifts was an amazing sense of humor.

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