Stephen Hawking, Physicist Who Reshaped Cosmology, Dies at 76
- His book ‘A Brief History of Time’ sold 10 million copies
- He was one of the longest survivors of Lou Gehrig’s disease
This article is for subscribers only.
Stephen Hawking, the British physicist and black-hole theorist who brought science to a mass audience with the best-selling book “A Brief History of Time,” has died. He was 76.
Hawking died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in England in the early hours of Wednesday morning, a spokesman for his family said in an emailed statement.