Stephen Hawking dies: 'A mind forever voyaging'

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Stephen Hawking dies: 'A mind forever voyaging'

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Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking died on Wednesday aged 76. Professor Hawking was diagnosed with a form of motor neurone disease (also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Lou Gehrig's disease) when he was 21, but that did not stop him becoming the foremost scientist of his generation. Tributes poured in after the news of his death. Fellow scientists Richard Dawkins posted on Twitter, repeating the words of Wordsworth when Sir Isaac Newton died: "Silent face, the marble index of a mind f...

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14 March 2018

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