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Stephen Hawking, modern science's brightest star

Stephen Hawking, modern science's brightest star, dies aged 76 His family released a statement in the early hours of Wednesday morning confirming his death at his home in Cambridge. The image of  Stephen Hawking  – who has died aged 76 – in his motorised wheelchair, with head contorted slightly to one side and hands crossed over to work the controls, caught the public imagination, as a true symbol of the triumph of mind over matter. As with the Delphic oracle of ancient Greece, physical impairment seemed compensated by almost supernatural gifts, which allowed his mind to roam the universe freely, upon occasion enigmatically revealing some of its secrets hidden from ordinary mortal view.