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Stephen Hawking was an inspiring man - and in some ways, not a nice one
Graham Farmelo’s definitive biography humanizes the great physicist, who was given a death sentence at 21, then spent five decades making dazzling discoveries
What I remember now is the sound of the medical equipment. The hum of the wheelchair. The awkwardness to be around a human but not able to talk to a human. The guilty relief at, eventually, getting to leave. And, before that, the slight movement of a... [8634 chars]
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