Stephen Hawking was probably the most famous genius of our modern times.


But what was he so famous for — aside from his amazing resilience to a disabling disease, that instantly recognizable retro-robotic voice, and his walk-over roles in The Simpsons and Star Trek?

Didn't he discover the black holes? Or the Big Bang? Or tell us what time is or something? No, no and no again. But it's hard to cut through the thickets of the myth and get acquainted with the things he really discovered. Hawking's own legend threatens to obscure its real achievements.

On March 16, Hawking had an appointment with BBC Reith Lecture . It showed the status of this speaker not only as an expert in his discipline, but also as an audience intellectual. The ideal time to dive deeper into physicist Hawking.

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