Sean Carroll

professor of physics at Caltech, one of Stephen Hawking’s colleagues

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Stephen Hawking died Tuesday at his home in England. He was 76. Hawking was known for his work on the universe and black holes, and for his wheelchair-bound persona.

Remembering astrophysicist Stephen Hawking and his link to Caltech

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