Remembering Stephen Hawking

In 1963, Stephen Hawking, then a physics student at the University of Cambridge, was given a few years to live. Now, 55 years later, after multiple best-selling books and many groundbreaking cosmological theories, the acclaimed physicist and science communicator has died. And his death has spawned an outpouring of respect and emotions from scientists the world over.
According to Lord Martin Rees — astronomer royal, emeritus professor of cosmology and astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, and fellow student of Hawking at Cambridge — Hawking viewed everything that happened after his devastating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) diagnosis as a bonus. And he certainly didn't waste a minute of that time.