![]() ![]() But he is also the rare cultural phenomenon whose celebrity is entirely deserved. Stephen Hawking is the rare scientist who is also a celebrity and cultural phenomenon. (If you’re interested in a much better description of Hawking’s scientific legacy by someone who should know, see this article in The Guardian by Roger Penrose.) I’m pretty sure the article was never printed, and I never got paid for it so here it is! It was solicited by a magazine at a time when Hawking was very ill and people thought he would die relatively quickly - it wasn’t the only time people thought that, only to be proven wrong. When I started writing the above pieces (mostly yesterday, in a bit of a rush), I stumbled across this article I had written several years ago about Hawking’s scientific legacy. Of course Hawking has been mentioned on this blog many times. I can also point to my Story Collider story from a few years ago, about how I turned down a job offer from Hawking, and eventually took lessons from his way of dealing with the world. “ Stephen Hawking Was Very Particular About His Tea,” in The Atlantic - more focused on our personal interactions and Hawking’s human side.“ Stephen Hawking’s Most Profound Gift to Physics,” in The New York Times - a piece concentrating on black hole evaporation and the information-loss puzzle. ![]() Plenty of memories and tributes have been written, including these by me: Stephen Hawking died Wednesday morning, age 76. ![]()
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