Hawking turns 70; too ill to attend celebration

Sunday, January 8, 2012 - 14:00 in Physics & Chemistry

The world's most widely recognized living scientist Stephen Hawking was too ill to attend his 70th birthday celebrations Sunday but was hailed by colleagues as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Einstein.

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