News Source: 7days
| 2 months ago
Acclaimed wheelchair-bound British scientist Stephen Hawking is to hand over his top Cambridge University job this week, the prestigious seat of learning said. Hawking, whose book ‘A Brief History Of Time’ became an international best-seller,...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| 2 months ago
The roughly 350-year-old position has been held by such luminaries as Isaac Newton and Charles Babbage, one of the fathers of modern computing. It is customary for professors to retire from the post the year they turn 67. Hawking, who reached that...
News Source: San Francisco Chronicle
| 2 months ago
Physicist Stephen Hawking is stepping down as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. The roughly 350-year-old post has been held by such luminaries as Isaac Newton and Charles Babbage, one of the fathers of modern computing.