Stephen Hawking

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Humanists and the world mourn the loss of a truly amazing human being.

Stephen Hawking, Cambridge, England, 1986, photographed by Ian Berry. (Magnum)

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British physicist Stephen Hawking was one of the world's most acclaimed cosmologists, a medical miracle, and probably the galaxy's most unlikely superstar celebrity.