Stephen Hawking 'Very Ill'

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Professor Stephen Hawking, one of the world's most famous scientists, is "very ill" in hospital, Cambridge University has said.

The physicist, who works at the university, has been having tests at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.
A university spokesman said the 67-year-old was taken to Addenbrooke's by ambulance.
"Professor Hawking is very ill. He is undergoing tests. He has been unwell for a couple of weeks," he said.
Professor Peter Haynes, Head of the University's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, added: "Professor Hawking is a remarkable colleague.
"We all hope he will be amongst us again soon."
The scientist is best known for his book A Brief History of Time.
Professor Hawking has motor neurone disease and is wheelchair bound. He speaks with the help of a voice synthesiser.
He developed symptoms of the disease while studying in the 1960s and is one of the world's longest surviving sufferers.
The physicist has worked at Cambridge's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics for more than 30 years.
Since 1979, he has been the University's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.
Professor Hawking was awarded a CBE in 1982, became a Companion of Honour in 1989 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.
He lives in Cambridge and has three children and one grandchild.
Professor Hawking was born in Oxford but his family moved to St Albans, Hertfordshire, when he was eight.
He studied at St Albans School before reading physics at University College Oxford then moving to Cambridge to carry out research in cosmology.
One of Professor Hawking's last public appearances was last September when he unveiled a £1m clock erected at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

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He has over-lived his life expectancy so its no suprise, I wondering if I went to Addenbrookes Hospital I could see him. (Thats 10 mins away from me)

[Bun]

oh i didn't know he graduated from oxford but works at cambridge lol.

[Mrs.McCall]

I hear he has a virus.

They tried System Restore?

[Immenseman]

joey LMAO

hope hes okai.

[Mrs.McCall]

Totally worthy of my 2,000 post.

And he had good innings. Lived over life expectancy.

[paul4wolves]

I hear he has a virus.

They tried System Restore?

That's not funny. It would be funny if Bill Gates has a virus.

[Casanova]

Hopefully he'll be okay - if not hopefully he passes peacefully. He really is an amazing man, I watched that show he done a few months back on channel four.

[Mrs.McCall]

Apparently he was rushed to hospital after his screen turned blue.

[Kipp]

Hope he will be ok.

[Fez]

I hear he has a virus.

They tried System Restore?

Not funny.