My Alarming, Inspiring Encounter with Stephen Hawking

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: John Horgan <jhorgan () stevens edu>
> Date: March 14, 2018 at 9:24:41 AM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <farber () gmail com>
> Subject: My Alarming, Inspiring Encounter with Stephen Hawking
>
> Dave, I thought your list might find this reminiscence interesting. John
>
> My Alarming, Inspiring Encounter with the Late Stephen Hawking
>  
>
> In 1990, while on assignment for Scientific American, I had a close encounter with Stephen Hawking, who just died at 
> the age of 76. I had bulled my way into a symposium, sponsored by the Nobel Foundation, on “The Birth and Early 
> Evolution of Our Universe.” Thirty of the world’s top physicists and cosmologists, including Hawking, had gathered in 
> a rustic, isolated resort in northern Sweden to ponder the riddle of the cosmos.
>
>  
>
> I arrived late on the first day of the meeting, just as everyone was heading outside for a cocktail party. Hawking, 
> already paralyzed by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, led the procession in his motorized wheelchair. We were within 
> sight of picnic tables bearing reindeer jerky and a potent local brew called wolf’s blood when Hawking’s wheelchair 
> jammed in a rut. His nurse, Elaine Mason (whom Hawking later married), tried to budge the wheelchair, without 
> success. Fixing her eyes on me, she asked if I would carry “Stephen” the rest of the way....
>
> Continue reading at
>
> https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/my-alarming-inspiring-encounter-with-the-late-stephen-hawking/​



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