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| British scientist Stephen Hawking's 1988 book "A Brief History of Time" became an unlikely worldwide bestseller and cemented his superstar status, dedicated his life to unlocking the secrets of the Universe |
Renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking, whose mental genius and physical disability made him a household name and inspiration across the globe, has died at age 76, his family said Wednesday.
Propelled
to superstardom by his 1988 book "A Brief History of Time", which
became an unlikely worldwide bestseller, Hawking dedicated his life to
unlocking the secrets of the Universe.
His genius
and wit won over fans from far beyond the rarified world of astrophysics,
earning comparisons with Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton.
Hawking
died peacefully at his home in the British university city of Cambridge in the
early hours of Wednesday morning.
"We
are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today," professor
Hawking's children, Lucy, Robert, and Tim said in a statement carried by
Britain's Press Association news agency.
"He
was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live
on for many years."
Hawking
defied predictions he would only live for a few years after developing a form
of motor neurone disease in his early 20s.
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Profile of
the British physicist Steven Hawking
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The illness
gradually robbed him of mobility, leaving him confined to a wheelchair, almost
completely paralysed and unable to speak except through his trademark voice
synthesiser.
"His
courage and persistence with his brilliance and humour inspired people across
the world," his family said.
"He
once said, 'It would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people
you love.' We will miss him forever."
A titan
of science
Born on
January 8, 1942 -- 300 years to the day after the death of the father of modern
science, Galileo Galilei -- Stephen William Hawking became one of the world's
most well-regarded scientists and entered the pantheon of science titans.
His death
was announced on the 139th anniversary of the birth of Albert Einstein.
Inside the
shell of his increasingly useless body was a razor-sharp mind, with an enduring
fascination with the mysteries of black holes.
His work focused on bringing together relativity -- the nature of space and time -- and quantum theory -- how the smallest particles behave -- to explain the creation of the Universe and how it is governed.
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British
theoretical physicist professor Stephen Hawking gives a lecture entitled:
"A Brief History of Mine" during the Starmus Festival on the Spanish
Canary island
of Tenerife on June 29, 2016
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His work focused on bringing together relativity -- the nature of space and time -- and quantum theory -- how the smallest particles behave -- to explain the creation of the Universe and how it is governed.
"My
goal is simple," he once said. "It is complete understanding of the
universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."
But he was
also a beloved figure in popular culture, with cameos in "Star Trek: The
Next Generation" and "The Simpsons", while his voice appeared in
Pink Floyd songs.
Tributes
began pouring in from scientists around the world, lauding him as an
inspiration.
American
astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeted his condolences, with a
characteristically cosmological reference.
"His
passing has left an intellectual vacuum in his wake. But it's not empty. Think
of it as a kind of vacuum energy permeating the fabric of spacetime that defies
measure," the scientist said.
NASA issued
its own Twitter eulogy, publishing a video of the scientist grinning as he
soared into weightlessness on a zero gravity flight at the Kennedy Space Center
in Florida, escaping his wheelchair for a brief period of time.
"His
theories unlocked a universe of possibilities that we & the world are
exploring. May you keep flying like superman in microgravity, as you said to
astronauts on in 2014."
His death
even drew mourning from celebrities not normally associated with the
intricacies of astrophysics.
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Pope
Francis meets with British theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen
Hawking at the Vatican in November 2016
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American
singer Katy Perry said there was "a big black hole in my heart".
'Not
afraid of death'
Hawking's
first marriage to Jane Wilde in 1965 gave him three children and was
immortalised in the 2014 film "The Theory of Everything".
The couple
split after 25 years and he married his former nurse, Elaine Mason, but the
union broke down amid allegations, denied by him, of abuse.
Hawking
became one of the youngest fellows of Britain's most prestigious scientific
body, the Royal Society, at the age of 32.
In 1979 he
was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University -- a
post previously held by Newton -- where he had moved from Oxford University to
study theoretical astronomy and cosmology.
Hawking was
an outspoken commentator on life back on earth, voicing his disapproval in
recent years of both the election of Donald Trump in the United States, and
Britain's vote to leave the European Union.
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