Stephen Hawking's Cosmos Award. British theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen William Hawking (born 1942), receiving The Planetary Society's C
Stephen Hawking's Cosmos Award. British theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen William Hawking (born 1942), receiving The Planetary Society's Cosmos Award for Outstanding Public Presentation of Science. Hawking, famous for his work on black holes and his book 'A Brief History of Time' (1988), is at left. He is mostly paralysed by a form of motor neurone disease. The others, from left to right, representing The Planetary Society, are: US science author Ann Druyan (born 1949), US astronautics engineer Louis Friedman, and US astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (born 1958). Photographed in Cambridge, UK, on 27 February 2010.
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