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Stars gravitate to Stephen Hawking鈥檚 memorial service

There was only one Stephen Hawking but there were a thousand ways to celebrate a genius and science鈥檚 only global celebrity at London鈥檚 Westminster Abbey

By Valerie Jamieson

18 June 2018

Hawking's headstone

Hawking鈥檚 tombstone in Westminster Abbey boils down his insights into black holes, thermodynamics and quantum theory into one famous equation

It鈥檚 hard to imagine another place in space-time where A-list celebrities and physicists would collide so powerfully. But no other scientist has a gravitational pull like Stephen Hawking and this was the service of thanksgiving for his life and work at Westminster Abbey in London last Friday.

Guests from the world of showbusiness mixed with politicians, technology entrepreneurs, school children and Hawking鈥檚 collaborators from physics and the charitable sector. Musician Nile Rogers, actor Benedict Cumberbatch and astronaut Tim…

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