In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called “Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?” Hawking, who later became my ...
When Stephen W. Hawking, the famous British physicist who studied black holes and other cosmological wonders, visited Ithaca more than 50 years ago, it didn’t go well. Hawking, who died on Tuesday at ...