The British physicist Stephen Hawking, ο οποίος είναι γνωστός για την πρωτοποριακή του εργασία στην εξήγηση της μαύρης τρύπας και της σχετικότητας, πέθανε σήμερα στην ηλικία των 76 ετών στο σπίτι του στο Cambridge.
Stephen Hawking has been in a wheelchair since the 60s after contracting motor neuron disease at the age of 21. He then lost his voice in a tracheotomy.
But none of these tragedies stopped him from continuing his pioneering work. He was elected Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and published an expository treatise on the origin and fate of the universe, A Brief History of Time (A Brief History of Time) which became a best-seller.
His condition worsened, and Hawking could only communicate by typing, using a sensor activated by a muscle in his cheek. In 2014, Intel and SwiftKey they created a language model of communication to reduce the time and effort required to type Hawking.
Hawking has also appeared on television shows such as The Simpsons, Futurama and The Big Bang Theory. The 2014 Oscar-winning film The Theory of Everything chronicles his life.
His three children, Lucy, Robert and Timothy, said:
"We are deeply saddened that our beloved father has died today.
He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and the legacy will live on for many years.”
The BBC has one great publication by 2016 in some of Hawking's most important works, and the Guardian was released photographs recording his life.
