Stephen Hawking   14 Mar 2018 Stephen Hawking    14 Mar 2018   People, Science   
 
 
 
 
 
I want to show that people need not be limited by physical handicaps as long as they are not disabled in spirit. Stephen Hawking

 

It's π day. 3.14. The physicist Stephen Hawking is dead.

When first diagnosed with the dreadful Lou Gehrig's disease he wasn't expected to live very long. But live he did, and to the respectable age of 76.

 
 
 
 
Credit: Terry Smith, Time/Life Getty
Stephen Hawking  
 
 
 
 
Credit: Terry Smith, Time/Life Getty
Stephen Hawking  
 
 
 
 
Credit: Terry Smith, Time/Life Getty
Stephen Hawking