Professor Stephen Hawking, 1942-2018: obituary

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Hawking defied Motor Neurone Disease for much of his life

Globally renowned physicist Professor Stephen Hawking has died, aged 76. Hawking was already recognised as a tour-de-force in academic circles but came to the public attention during the 1980s w...

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