Stephen Hawking death News
Isaac Newton was buried at the Abbey following his death in 1727, as was naturalist Charles Darwin a century and a half later in 1882.
The acclaimed British physicist breathed his last in the early hours of Wednesday, March 14.
Despite his debilitating condition, Stephen Hawking went on to live a full life with major achievements to his name.
Stephen Hawking reached out into the depths of the universe with his mind and decoded the mysterious cosmos for the common people.
The cosmologist stressed upon the increasing developments in AI and while he lauded the progress, he also feared that machines will one day be more dominant than human beings.
Diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 1963 at the age of 21, Hawking was given only a few years to live, but he defied the odds and survived for more than half a century.
British physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking died after complications due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
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