London: Stephen Hawking, the British cosmologist who urged people to "be curious" in the Paralympics opening ceremony, has landed the richest prize in science for his work on how black holes emit radiation.
Wheelchair-bound Hawking won $3 million from Russian Internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner, who set up his prize this year to address what he regards as a lack of recognition in the modern world for leading scientists.
Alongside Hawking, a second $3 million award has gone to the scientists behind the discovery this year of a new subatomic particle that behaves like the theoretical Higgs boson, imagined almost half a century ago and responsible for bestowing mass on other fundamental particles.
The scale of the awards from the Milner foundation - and being able to give them to multiple recipients for huge projects - could, over time, see them compete in prestige terms with the annual Nobel prizes....
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03:21 AM, Dec 12, 2012
London: A third of primary school children in the UK believe Albert Einstein is a reality TV star and one-fourth of them think Stephen Hawking is a hairdresser, a new study has found. However, 68 per cent were correctly able to identify Mark Zuckerberg as the founder of social networking site Facebook. As many as 29 per cent kids think they have recently seen Einstein, who died in 1955, on...
03:35 PM, Oct 29, 2012
London: With an IQ of 162, a 12-year-old schoolgirl in UK has been rated brainier than even Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Olivia Manning, from Liverpool, has been accepted into Mensa, the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world after she got a score of 162 in an intelligence test. Her score is not only two points better than German genius Einstein and physicist Hawking, it puts her...
11:52 AM, Oct 05, 2012
London: Volleys of fireworks lit up the night sky, Beverley Knight belted out "I am what I am," and Britain's first Paralympic gold medallist lit the cauldron to open the 2012 London Paralympic Games. It was a night of empowerment for the disabled worldwide. "Enlightenment" was the theme, physicist Stephen Hawking the guide and Olympic Stadium the venue on Wednesday as the British capital welcomed 4,200 athletes from more than...
09:15 AM, Aug 30, 2012
London: Renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has launched the most powerful shared-memory supercomputer in Europe. Hawking anticipates that the COSMOS supercomputer, manufactured by SGI and the first system of its kind, will open up new windows on the universe, a university release said. During the launch, which is part of the Numerical Cosmology 2012 workshop at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge, Hawking said, "We have...
04:16 PM, Jul 22, 2012
London: Scientists are working with Stephen Hawking to test a groundbreaking device to allow them to 'hack' into the brain of the world-famous British physicist, who has been unable to speak for the last 30 years. 70-year-old Hawking has been working with scientists at Standford University of the US who are developing iBrain - a tool which picks up brain waves and communicates them via a computer, the Daily Mail...
05:39 PM, Jun 25, 2012
London: Physicist Stephen Hawking has signed up to make a cameo appearance in US sitcom 'The Big Bang Theory', reports contactmusic.com. "When people would ask us who a 'dream guest star' for the show would be, we would always joke and say Stephen Hawking - knowing that it was a long shot of astronomical proportions. "In fact, we're not exactly sure how we got him. It's the kind of mystery...
12:23 PM, Mar 14, 2012
Cambridge: Intel Corp. is looking for ways to help famed British physicist Stephen Hawking reverse the slowing of his speech, according to a senior executive with the American chipmaker. Hawking was 21 when he was diagnosed Lou Gehrig's disease, an incurable degenerative disorder that has left him almost completely paralyzed. While an infrared sensor attached to his glasses translates the pulses in his right cheek into words spoken by a...
03:20 PM, Jan 10, 2012
Cambridge: Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking was not well enough to attend a conference in honor of his 70th birthday, a University of Cambridge official said on Sunday. Hawking's remarkable career is being honored as part of a day-long conference on cosmology being hosted at the university, but the celebrity scientist will not be in attendance, according to Vice chancellor Leszek Borysiewicz. Borysiewicz told conference attendees that Hawking was released from...
11:32 PM, Jan 08, 2012
Cambridge: British scientist Stephen Hawking has decoded some of the most puzzling mysteries of the universe but he has left one mystery unsolved: How he has managed to survive so long with such a crippling disease. The physicist and cosmologist was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease when he was a 21-year-old student at Cambridge University. Most people die within a few years of the diagnosis, called motor neuron disease in...
01:38 PM, Jan 08, 2012
London: Heaven is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking said in an interview published on Monday. Hawking, 69, was expected to die within a few years of being diagnosed with degenerative motor neurone disease at the age of 21, but became one of the world's most famous scientists with the publication of his 1988 book "A Brief History of Time"....
05:58 PM, May 16, 2011
London: There are probably no aliens out there - meaning we are entirely alone in the universe, said an astronomer. Even though there may many earth like planets, their existing conditions are likely to be too hostile to support life-forms such as extra terrestrials (ET), according to him. Howard Smith, senior astrophysicist at Harvard University, believes there is very little hope of discovering aliens and, even if we did, it...
02:34 PM, Jan 25, 2011
Hawking was admitted to hospital in the university city of Cambridge on Monday. ...
01:23 AM, Apr 21, 2009
CNN's Becky Anderson talked to the world renowned scientist. ...
03:07 PM, Oct 09, 2008
Professor Hawking has warned that the “Doomsday” has come nearer for planet earth as a result of climate change. ...
01:42 PM, Jan 18, 2007
Stephen Hawking is planning a zero-gravity flight this year as a precursor to a journey into space. ...
07:39 PM, Jan 08, 2007
Stephen Hawking says that mankind will need to leave planet Earth to ensure the long-term survival of the human race. ...
03:32 PM, Dec 01, 2006
Physicist Stephen Hawking is to start work on a book that will examine how and why the universe was created. ...
10:23 AM, Oct 05, 2006
