Stephen Hawking Stood up for Palestinians, Supported Boycott of Israel

– Stephen Hawking Stood up for Palestinians, Supported Boycott of Israel:

(MEE) — Tributes were being paid on Wednesday to renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking – not only remembering him for the brilliance of his scientific mind but as an impassioned campaigner who lent his unique voice to causes including Palestinians’ right of resistance and to call for an end to the war in Syria.

Hawking, who died early on Wednesday at the age of 76, achieved international acclaim following the publication in 1988 of A Brief History of Time, his book on theoretical physics’ search for a unifying theory that would resolve general relativity and quantum mechanics.

RIP Professor Stephen Hawking – a beautiful mind, brilliant scientist, principled human being, and, among others, a vocal supporter of the BDS boycott of Israel (in 2013 Hawking publicly backed the academic boycott of Israel).

Hamba kahle… pic.twitter.com/uWMBlYgVL4

— #Africa4Palestine (@Africa4Pal) March 14, 2018

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H/t reader squodgy:

“He da man.”

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– Lack of evidence put Hawking’s Nobel hopes in black hole:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Stephen Hawking won accolades from his peers for having one of the most brilliant minds in science, but he never got a Nobel Prize because no one has yet proven his ideas. The Nobel committee looks for proof, not big ideas. Hawking was a deep thinker — a theorist — and his musings about black holes and cosmology have yet to get the lockdown evidence that accompanies the physics prizes, his fellow scientists said.

“The Nobel Prize is not given to the smartest person or even the one who makes the greatest contribution to science. It’s given to discovery,” said California Institute of Technology physicist Sean Carroll. “Hawking’s best theories have not yet been tested experimentally, which is why he hasn’t won a prize.”

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H/t reader squodgy:

“Yet Barry Seotoro’s Peace Price was based on lies, bullshit and perpetual war & murder/genocide.
Has the Nobel prize been ridiculed forever?
I think so.”

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– A life: Hawking defied ALS to become pre-eminent physicist:

PARIS (AP) — In his final years, the only thing connecting the brilliant physicist to the outside world was a couple of inches of frayed nerve in his cheek. As slowly as a word per minute, Stephen Hawking used the twitching of the muscle under his right eye to grind out his thoughts on a custom-built computer, painstakingly outlining his vision of time, the universe, and humanity’s place within it.

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