Stephen William Hawking was born in Oxford, England, on Jan. 8, 1942 - 300 years to the day, he liked to point out, after the death of Galileo,

RIP.

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Interesting how physics gives us these larger-than-life characters.

Einstein, Feynman, Bohr, Oppenheimer. Hawking.

Because Physics is at the top of the scientific food chain??



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Is physics more fundamental than chemistry? I guess so.

It's called Physical Chemistry,

not the other way around,

for a reason.

Hawking, the Lucasian Professor of Mathmathics,

Sir Issac Newton's chair,

Cambridge University.

What else can you say.

Well done Stephen.  

We will miss you.

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It's amazing how far ahead of the world people like Hawking are/were.

Consider Einstein (~100 years ago) and other physicists and mathematicians from even 200-300 years ago came up with stuff that's still hard to understand today.

Hawking's stuff will still be black magic to the average college grad 100 years from now.

I was thinking about physics and chemistry the other day, wondering if teaching high school physics before chemistry (instead of the typical other way around) would give students a better understanding of chemistry.

Francis Collins (the Human Genome Project guy) is another one of those titans (BS in Chemistry, MS in Physics?, PhD in Physical Chemistry, MD, Post-doc work in genetics). The physics and chemistry certainly shaped his view and understanding of biology.

Yay science! And Happy Pi Day.

Considering how much science I learned in HS I wonder if it matters?

It really started to come home in graduate school.

But yes, the gap between knowing how to use Weebly and having even a weak grasp on the general relativity equation is troubling. I read somewhere it takes theoretical physicists until their mid-40s now to get decent traction on things.

I watch "Big Bang Theory".

Does that count?

Just watched the NPR special. Totally triumphant. What's more triumphant than using the worst thing that ever happened to you and turning it into the impetus to live in the world of theoretical physics and advance human knowledge by leaps and bounds. His sense of humor was amazing. What inspiration. What joy.

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