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Hawking, the celebrity theoretical physicist

On November 8, 2018, one of the earliest wheelchairs used by Stephen Hawking fetched a whopping sum of nearly 300,000, while a copy of his doctoral thesis fetched almost 585,000. How did a theoretical physicist turn into one of the most celebrated scientists of recent times? A.S.Ganesh gives you the answer with a brief look at his life and work

8 Nov 2026 10:54 am