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Stephen Hawking in Hospital, "Very Ill"

by Jordan Yerman | April 20, 2009 at 07:32 am

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Professor Stephen Hawking, perhaps the world's most famous scientist, has been hospitalized, and is, according to a Cambridge University spokesman, very ill.

Hawking's A Brief History of Time is a worldwide bestseller, explaining the Big Bang Theory, black holes, and supersymmetric string theory.

Professor Hawking, who works at the university, was undergoing tests at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

Professor Hawking suffers from motor neurone disease and is wheelchair bound. He speaks with the help of a voice synthesiser.

Professor Hawking is one of the world's longest-surviving sufferers of motor neurone disease, and perhaps the only one to have scored a guest spot on The Simpsons ("If you're looking for trouble, you've found it!")

Even as he struggled against the disease that began to cripple him as a young man, his mind grappled with some of the greatest unsolved questions about the universe and creation.

He has been compared with Albert Einstein and is considered a worthy occupier of the Cambridge post once held by Sir Isaac Newton.

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Mrsmission4

at 11:26 on April 20th, 2009

This is sad news, this man will be seen as the Einstein of his day! An incredible man who has helped answer some of mankinds deepest questions about our universe.

Mikasi

at 14:34 on April 20th, 2009

I saw a documentary on him once. It disclosed that he was a real slacker in school til he was diagnosed. From that point on it was full tilt into academia.

Here's to hoping he fares well!