Professor Stephen Hawking receives Royal Society's prestigious Copley medal
 

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Professor Stephen Hawking ireceived the world's oldest award for scientific achievement - the Royal Society's prestigious Copley medal - for his outstanding contribution to theoretical physics and theoretical cosmology on Nov. 30, 2006.

In recognition of Professor Hawking's work in cosmology, British-born astronaut Piers Sellers carried the medal with him on the STS-121 space shuttle mission to the International Space Station.

First awarded by the Royal Society in 1731, the Copley medal pre-dates the Nobel Prize by 170 years. It is awarded for outstanding achievements in scientific research and during its 275 year history, has been awarded to such scientific luminaries as Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein and Louis Pasteur.

Professor Hawking said: "This is a very distinguished medal. It was awarded to Darwin, Einstein and Crick. I am honoured to be in their company."

Stephen Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. His work has been essential in understanding and classifying black holes. He also authored four popular-science books including "A Brief History of Time" and "The Universe in a Nutshell."

The medal was awarded to Professor Hawking at the Society's annual Anniversary Day, commemorating its founding in 1660.

For more information on the award and Administrator Griffin's speech before the Royal Society, visit Stephen Hawking Receives Medal Flown on Space Shuttle.

Meanwhile, NASA "ireceived" the spelling and proof-reading award.

Congrast to Professor Hawking :thumbsup
That is a huge honor.

his teeth are fucking disgusting though

Wow, Hawking is better than 1000 monkeys!

You're him. Now try brushing them.

Is Stephen Hawking British? It's hard to tell by his accent.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Congratulate!!!

And what his nickname on this board is?

It's all the more incredible when you realize he does it IN HIS HEAD, without the benefit of pen/paper or chalkboard.

professor_horny_guy

He has an amazing mind. Complete brain activity.

One of those who influenced me to major in physics.

Same here, until I got into graduate-level classes and realized he's mostly irrelevant and looked down upon by "real" physicists.

Musta been experimental guys ;-)

I thought his Hawking Radiation idea was brilliant.

Interestingly, my area of concentration is spin entanglement (at first, as it applied to nanostructures, but now for super symmetry and teleportation). When I first heard about Hawking Radiation, it kind of scared me ... because it would seem he's saying the universe would eventually "go dark" because of it.

he was once on a Star Trek: TNG episode... playing poker with Data on the holodeck with Sir Isaac Newton and Sigmon Freud. Hawking played himself.

I only did undergrad with a few grad courses so wouldn't say I had an area of concentration. I did write a paper on using the Suzuki method for approximating the solution to differential equations on a pared down model of the solar system.
Basically, the question I answered was how chaotic the orbit of Pluto is. This is back in the old days when Pluto was still a planet! ;-)

I wish I'd read that book by that wheelchair guy.

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He was also once in a Robert Wilson experimental opera where they lowered him onto the stage from the rafters... wheelchair and all. Next he'll be getting a Tony Award.

He's also a pimp. Leaves his wife, gets the Copley medal... he's gonna be beatin' off groupies with mind bullets.

Yeah, hehe, it's amazing how many "new" planets and planetlets we have that people can't name. :winkwink: