Stephen Hawking, the physicist and cosmologist who died last week, is now set to have his ashes interred alongside those of Sir Issac Newton in Westminister Abbey. He was famous for his acute intelligence, his courage living with motor neuron disease, his strange, disembodied, robot voice, and for being the author of the book, A Brief History of Time, which, according to the conventional wisdom, everybody bought but nobody read.
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