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Stephen Hawking.

Hawking Archive saved for the nation

27 May 2021

Hawking Archive to join those of Newton and Darwin at Cambridge University Library.

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6,000 and counting: Cambridge Vice-Chancellor joins Stephen Hawking in making his PhD ‘Open Access’

27 Feb 2019

Cambridge also becomes first UK university to publish position statement on Open Research.

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Step inside the mind of the young Stephen Hawking as his PhD thesis goes online for first time

23 Oct 2017

Stephen Hawking’s PhD thesis, ‘ Properties of expanding universes’ , has been made freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world, after being...

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Centre for the Future of Intelligence joins international coalition for safe and beneficial AI

16 May 2017

The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI), a Cambridge-based research Centre exploring the nature and impact of Artificial...

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Priceless treasures: in a shot commissioned to celebrate Cambridge University Library’s 600th anniversary, Professor Stephen Hawking is pictured with Newton’s annotated first edition of Principia Mathematica.  Credit: Graham CopeKoga

Understanding gravity - from Newton to Hawking

29 Apr 2016

The most important publication in the history of science – Isaac Newton’s own annotated copy of Principia Mathematica – and other seminal works by...

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Newton, Darwin, Shakespeare – and an envelope of ectoplasm: Cambridge University Library at 600

23 Dec 2015

In 2016, Cambridge University Library will celebrate 600 years as one of the world's greatest libraries with a spectacular exhibition of priceless...

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Stephen Hawking

Professor Stephen Hawking’s 70th birthday symposium will focus on ‘The State of the Universe’

06 Jan 2012

Professor Stephen Hawking will look back on his life at an event to celebrate his 70th birthday this weekend in Cambridge.

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