Since none of the physics bloggers on SB have pointed to it yet, Stephen Hawking has been hospitalized with a respiratory ailment. He's 67.
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I have to admit that I am at a loss as to how to follow up to Fernando Esponda's curiosity about how medical thinking could be applied to economics.
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We have many citations to the work of Stephen Hawkings on www.osti.gov/energycitations
Isn't it true that Hawking is more of a celebrity than a great theoretical physicist?
good, someone broached the overrated/underrated question before I had to
"Isn't it true that Hawking is more of a celebrity than a great theoretical physicist?"
Is Hawking, for physics, as populariser analogous to Dawkin's for biology, perchance?
from what i understand hawking has made many substantive contributions to theoretical physics, while dawkins' has not made much original research contribution to evolutionary biology. hawkings is overrated insofar as his books have crazy blurbs like "greatest physicist since einstein."