Stephen Hawking’s original thesis is on the auction block. Five copies of Hawking’s thesis are thought to exist and the current Christie’s auction will end on November 8.  The thesis, “Properties… Read more »

The universe lost a great one yesterday, with the passing of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. Among Hawking’s many accomplishments—after a diagnosis of amyotropic lateral sclerosis when he was just twenty-one,… Read more »