You are here Stephen Hawking, a theoretical cosmologist who holds the Stephen W Hawking chair of cosmology at Cambridge University, was the long-serving Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, the same post held by Sir Isaac Newton. Stephen’s 50-year academic career, centered on black holes and the origins of the universe, has been exceptionally distinguished, with too many honours and pri
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