If people know anything about physics, it�s the guy in a wheelchair who speaks with a computer. Google �most famous scientist alive� and the answer is �Stephen Hawking.� But if you ask a physicist, what exactly is he famous for?
Hawking became �officially famous� with his 1988 book �A Brief History of Time.� Among physicists, however, he�s more renowned for the singularity theorems. In his
Saturday, 7 January 2017
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