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Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.
Stephen Hawking
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Stephen Hawking
Age: 76 †
Born: 1942
Born: January 8
Died: 2018
Died: March 14
Astronomer
Astrophysicist
Autobiographer
Cosmologist
Mathematician
Non-Fiction Writer
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Physicist
Science Fiction Writer
Hawking
Stephen William Hawking
S. W. Hawking
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