STEPHEN HAWKING was a brilliant theoretical physicist and is generally considered to have been
one of the world's greatest thinkers. He held the position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
at the University of Cambridge for thirty years and is the author of A Brief History of Time
which was an international bestseller. His other books for the general reader include A Briefer
History of Time the essay collection Black Holes and Baby Universe The Universe in a Nutshell
The Grand Design and Black Holes: The BBC Reith Lectures. He died on 14 March 2018.
