Professor Stephen Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics – Cambridge University.
Here he is in space:
Source : Brickshelf
And the ipod nano commercial:
My favorite Hawking quotes are:
Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.
God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.
Just a personal note: I had the privilege of working with him when he agreed to serve as an advisor to one of the conference that I organized eons ago. The conference was titled “Black Holes, Membranes, Wormholes and Superstrings”. I co-edited a book based on the talks at the conference. See it at Amazon or at http://www.allbookstores.com/author/S_Kalara.html
