The PARADE Interview with Stephen Hawking: Inside a Great Mind

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The PARADE Interview with Stephen Hawking
Inside a Great Mind
September 12, 2010

Diagnosed with a degenerative motor-neuron disease at 21, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking was told he had only a few years to live. Nearly five decades later, he has married twice, raised three children, and done more than anyone since Albert Einstein to expand our understanding of the cosmos. Now, at 68, he communicates by twitching one muscle in his right cheek; the motion sends an infrared beam to a computer that translates his signals into words. His new book, The Grand Design, written with Caltech physicist Leonard Mlodinow, applies the principles of physics to the mysteries of the universe.



Stephen Hawking, shown here in 1988, was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University from 1979-2009. He is now the Director of Research at the University's Centre for Theoretical Cosmology.

Read the interview at:

http://www.parade.com/news/2010/09/12-inside-a-great-mind.html

[DrDan]

1. he is a treasure . . . just a good thing he did not have to grow up in the U.K.

where healthcare would have deprived us of his thoughts