Physicist Stephen Hawking, who died at the age of 76

The British physicist Stephen Hawking, who died at the age of 76. ‘Professor Hawking, who passed away peacefully at home in Cambridge early in the morning’, reports his family Wednesday.

Hawking was, except his research on black holes, the construction of the universe and the fundamental laws of nature, also known as a media figure, a writer of popular books and because of the disease, almost completely paralyzed, in a wheelchair kluisterde and him obliged with a computer voice to speak.