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26 unusual facts about Stephen Hawking


African Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Stephen Hawking visited the AIMS research centre and AIMS-NEI launch.

Alexander Tsiaras

Tsiaras has lectured and keynoted many conferences including the National Library of Medicine (NLM/NIH) Scientific Visualization Conference, TED, TEDMED, Ink Conference (in association with TED India), Google Health Conference "ThinkHealth 2012", Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR) and has lectured with Stephen Hawking at the MIT Media Lab.

Anthology of Interest I

The next day, while telling Mr. Panucci, who dismisses his story, Fry is overheard by regular customer Stephen Hawking who arranges for Fry to be abducted on his way home from work.

DECtalk

A notable user is Stephen Hawking, who is unable to speak due to a combination of severe disabilities caused by ALS as well as an emergency tracheotomy.

Equation of everything

Some physicists such as Stephen Hawking think that it would be impossible to construct a real equation of everything due to the incompleteness theorem of mathematics.

Gibbons–Hawking–York boundary term

The necessity of such a boundary term was first realised by York and later refined in a minor way by Gibbons and Hawking.

Global Science

Global Science also publishes books and Urdu Translation of seminal work of Stephen Hawking and Haroon Yahya.

Gocompare.com

In direct response to this reaction, Go Compare deliberately subverted the campaign by running a series of adverts where celebrity guests such as Sue Barker, Stuart Pearce, Ray Mears, Louie Spence and Stephen Hawking lined up to "silence" the character of Gio Compario.

Injustice Gang

Batman defeats Prometheus after reprogramming his helmet—normally capable of giving him the combat skills of 30 of the world's greatest martial artists—to give him the physical characteristics of Stephen Hawking.

Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking

Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking is a 2010 science documentary television mini-series written by British physicist Stephen Hawking.

Keep Talking

Written by David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Polly Samson, it was sung by Gilmour and also features samples of Stephen Hawking's electronic voice, taken from a BT television advertisement.

Kenneth Lyen

In addition, he has written and staged 20 musicals in Singapore, including: Big Bang!(1995): based on the life of Stephen Hawking, cosmologist.

Last Days on Earth

It includes input from a number of scientists including Michio Kaku, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stephen Hawking and Kevin Warwick.

Ottawa-Carleton Educational Space Simulation

The Habitat, called the Hawking III as the third in a series of OCESS habitats named after eminent physicist Stephen Hawking, is the simulated living space for astronauts during missions.

Phraselator

The device does not produce synthesized speech like that utilized by Stephen Hawking; instead, it plays pre-recorded foreign language MP3 files.

Ready, Willing, and Disabled

As the Games commence, Joe's primary rival is an athlete strongly resembling Stephen Hawking, who repeatedly insults Joe using a voice synthesizer.

Rudolf Kippenhahn

Since 1991, Dr. Kippenhahn has been an active published author in Goettingen, trying to popularise astronomical science research, in the same vein as Stephen Hawking's writing, for which he won the Bruno H. Bürgel prize.

Shin Megami Tensei

:He is based on the real-life theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.

Solemn Camel Crew

Each with common running themes that have survived to make appearances on later records, namely, Stephen Hawking references and The Tony Bear Theme.

Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe

The series includes interviews with astrophysicist Kim Weaver, Bernard Carr, a student of Hawking's, and three theoretical physicists: Michio Kaku, Edward Witten, known for his work on superstring theory, and Lisa Randall.

Stephen Hawking's Universe

Stephen Hawking's Universe is an astronomical documentary from 1997 made for the Public Broadcasting Service featuring the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.

The Fall of Hyperion

The novel also contains explicit references to classical literature and modern writings, including the scientific works of the Jesuit and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the physicist Stephen Hawking, and some of the fiction of author Jack Vance.

Typing

Using a personalized interface, physicist Stephen Hawking, who suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, managed to type 15 wpm with a switch and adapted software created by Walt Woltosz.

University College, Oxford

It was due to the college's lack of a mathematics fellow (this is no longer the case) that Professor Stephen Hawking read a natural sciences degree and ended up specialising in physics.

William Cottrell

A letter in Cottrell’s defense, signed by Stephen Hawking and other prominent scientists, was distributed to prison authorities and the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals at Cottrell’s October 18, 2006 hearing.

Yousef Munayyer

In a May 2013 letter to the Boston Globe, Munayyer applauded scientist Stephen Hawking’s academic boycott of Israel.


Authorization

An example is the 2002 'The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe' , which was collected from Stephen Hawking's lectures and published without his permission as per copyright law.

Homer Dudley

His development of artificial speech was elaborated upon by others to produce methods of artificial speech for humans unable to use their vocal cords (as with the voice synthesizer used by Stephen Hawking), and by electronic music pioneers Wendy Carlos, Robert Moog and the German musical group Kraftwerk.

Ian Peacock

He has interviewed many well-known people such as Tony Blair, Barbara Cartland, Stephen Hawking, Bob Hope, Spike Milligan, Oliver Reed and Robbie Williams, and has reported from cities as far afield as Paris, Athens, Katmandu, Cairo, New York and Los Angeles.

Introduction to M-theory

Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, in the popular scientific book The Grand Design, take a philosophical position to support a view of the universe as a multiverse, and define it in the book as model-dependent realism which along with a sum-over-histories approach (see Path integral formulation of Quantum mechanics) to the universe as a whole, is used to claim that M-theory is the only candidate for a complete theory of the universe.

Jeff Rawle

Rawle has provided numerous narrations including A Bear Called Paddington, three series of the Duchess of York's Budgie the Little Helicopter, Stephen Hawking's Universe and Tom Fort's The Grass is Always Greener for BBC Radio 4.

Muktar A. Gadanya

He was among the people recommended for meeting with Stephen Hawking, who was in quest for an "African Einstein".

NextEinstein

The project was launched in Cape Town in May 2008 with a programme of events including lectures by Stephen Hawking, David Gross and George Smoot.

Pokey the Penguin

Celebrities and politicians appear as well, including "Bobdole" (who looks exactly like Pokey) and Stephen Hawking (Pokey with a pointed wizard's hat).

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Starting with the development of symbolic written language (and the eventual perceived need for a dictionary), Gleick examines the history of intellectual insights central to information theory, detailing the key figures responsible such as Claude Shannon, Charles Babbage, Ada Byron, Samuel Morse, Alan Turing, Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins and John Archibald Wheeler.