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Netizens Are Mourning Stephen Hawking’s Demise, At Age 76

There have been very few people in this world, living right now, who have gone on to create an impact on the entire world and that too as significant as the one made by Physicist Stephen Hawking. The man who was bound to a wheelchair due to his illness, but never made anyone believe in it. Hawking was one of the very few the world looked up to even when they don’t exactly incline towards his teachings and discoveries.

Many have called Stephen Hawking to one of the greatest science’s celebrities since Albert Einstein. However, on March 14th, ironically or non-ironically, on the birth anniversary of Albert Einstein, Hawking passed away. He died at his home in Cambridge at the age of 76, which is pretty great considering this one time when doctors told Hawking that he has not more than 2-3 years to live when he was 21.

But he went on to live 55 more years, and along with that he gave the world – A Brief History Of Time that simplifies the Big Bang and concept of Black Holes for the world.

“My disabilities have not been a significant handicap in my field, which is theoretical physics. Indeed, they have helped me in a way,” Hawking wrote in a 1984 essay, saying that illness gave him the time to think through physics problems, rather than lecture or perform administrative duties. He has done so much more to promote the public understanding of cosmology than any other living individual.

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Over the course of his life and decades since the publication of his Brief History, Hawking fame only increased and went on to give him a significant space in pop culture. The man has made various appearances in TV shows such as The Simpsons, Star Trek: The Next Generation and even in The Big Bang Theory. In fact, in 2015, actor Eddie Redmayne won an Oscar for his portrayal of Hawking in The Theory of Everything, which explored the collapse of his marriage to his first wife, Jane Wilde Hawking, in revealing fashion.

The news of Stephen Hawking’s demise came as a big shock for many who went on Twitter to give their condolences to one of the greatest physicists of all time.

With Hawking’s death, the world moves into a new era which is much more technologically advanced and has too many great minds to make things happen. But there will never be anyone even close to the stature and with the significance of Stephen Hawking.