Over the next week Alice Desert Guides will be exposing you to some of the greatest scientific minds that are constantly helping us understand the universe and our place in it. There is only one place to start and that is will Stephen Hawking. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Albert Einstein. Stephen Hawking is the former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller. Now Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at Cambridge, his other books for the general reader include A Briefer History of Time, the essay collection Black Holes and Baby Universe and The Universe in a Nutshell. In 1963, Hawking contracted motor neurone disease and was given two years to live. Yet he went on to Cambridge to become a brilliant researcher and Professorial Fellow at Gonville and Caius College. From 1979 to 2009 he held the post of Lucasian Professor at Cambridge, the chair held by Isaac Newton in 1663. Professor Hawking has over a dozen honorary degrees and was awarded the CBE in 1982. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and a Member of the US National Academy of Science. This is taken from his official website. To visit his official site, follow this link. hawking.org.uk/videos.html It will take you to the video page. When you get there scroll down to the bottom and watch the You Tube videos. The first one with the amazing Peter Diamandis is so inspiring.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 04:46:00 +0000
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