For those of you who didn't know, I'm sort of a science geek, that's why this is a bummer....CAMBRIDGE, England, April 20 (UPI) -- British physicist Stephen Hawking, who has been "very ill," was hospitalized Monday, a Cambridge University statement said.
A spokesman said Hawking, 67, a wheelchair-bound professor best-known as the author of "A Brief History of Time," was undergoing tests at the school's Addenbrooke's Hospital, the British tabloid The Daily Mail reported.
Not since Einstein has the world of astrophysics had such an iconic figure as Professor Hawk.
Bonus: A virtual cookie to the first reader to name the origin of the moniker, "Professor Hawk".
4 comments:
DC comics. A member of the Justice League or Justice International. A weak super hero bt all normal standards.
No Joe, but nice scatter attempt at an answer.
I am sorry, Ed I took you for an old DC comics junkie!. It takes a real Brain (in Your case), or (a lack of things to do and a huge collection of comics in mine) to know that character. Professor Hawk was also used on one of the newer comic TV shows.
Growing up I did have a collection of Captain America, Ironman, and Spiderman comics but, I never developed a passion for comics like some guys. Professor Hawk was a character based on Hawking used in an episode of Dexter's Lab. My son was a big Dexter's Lab nut when he was little so we used to watch it together. It beat the hell out of watching Barney.
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