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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Stephen Hawking is in hospital


Stephen Hawking, the British theoretical physicist and best-selling author, is under observation in a U.K. hospital where he was taken yesterday after becoming “very ill” with a chest infection.

The professor, 67, who suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and has used an electric wheelchair for most of his adult life, is “comfortable,” in a Cambridge hospital, the University of Cambridge said in an e-mailed statement.

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