During his lifetime, Professor Stephen Hawking achieved a rare status, that of a celebrity theoretical physicist. Even those ...

The year 1959 started with a bang: January 2 saw the thirty-two-year-old Fidel Castro sweeping to power in Cuba; a month later Buddy Holly died in a plane crash and Indira Gandhi became the leader of ...

Stephen Hawking spent much of his life pulling at a thread, one that had been swallowed by a black hole. He was interested in ...

Few figures have reshaped our understanding of the universe as profoundly as Stephen Hawking. Known for his groundbreaking work on black holes and the origins of the cosmos, Hawking was not only a ...