This was how Stephen Hawking, the former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, current Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, best selling author and world famous science communicator, started his lectures. I first heard Hawking speak at his 60th Birthday Symposium on 11 January 2002, coincidentally my first day officially working for Plus. I was very sad to learn that Stephen Hawking died this morning at home in Cambridge at the age of 76....

This was how Stephen Hawking, the former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, current Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, best selling author and world famous science communicator, started his lectures. I first heard Hawking speak at his 60th Birthday Symposium on 11 January 2002, coincidentally my first day officially working for Plus. I was very sad to learn that Stephen Hawking died this morning at home in Cambridge at the age of 76....