Stephen Hawking is an internationally-recognized theoretical physicist, and is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University.

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The thought clearly preoccupies the Daily Telegraph's Neil Tweedie, in a review of the Lucasian Professor of Theoretical Physics' appearance on yesterday's Richard and Judy show.

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He has 12 honorary degrees, was awarded the CBE in 1982 and since 1979 has been at Cambridge University's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, where he is Lucasian Professor of Mathematics -- a post once held by Isaac Newton.

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