[Bill S (OP)]

https://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2018/03/stephen-hawking-iconic-scientific-mind-dead-76?et_cid=6287080&et_rid=517749120&type=cta&et_cid=6287080&et_rid=517749120&linkid=https%3a%2f%2fwww.laboratoryequipment.com%2fnews%2f2018%2f03%2fstephen-hawking-iconic-scientific-mind-dead-76%3fet_cid%3d6287080%26et_rid%3d%%subscriberid%%%26type%3dcta

End of an era?

[alancalverd]

Never mind the physics, or the Nobel that he never got. With six appearances in each of The Simpsons* and The Big Bang Theory**, Hawking deserved an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement as a Nonspeaking Character on the Other Side of the World.

Not sure if he was ever prosecuted for possession of a lethal weapon, but his wheelchair driving in Cambridge market made The Stig look like an amateur.

Good bloke, much missed already.

*more than Richard Nixon

**more than Leonard Nimoy