Speaker to Animals wrote: LOL, what??
He was one of the most important minds of our time.
Most important minds IN THE MEDIA. Big difference.
For the media he was a romantic figure, a scientist struggling against an inevitable uncurable disease that slowly would kill him
and then investigation things like the universe and black holes. As he was in this race to do something astonishing find
or perish to ALS.
I mean really, Hawking radiation? Hawking is far better known for his "science entertainment", popularization of science with books
like "A Brief History of Time" that gave him money to fight his disease.
Hawking radiation wasn't worth a Nobel prize in Physics, actually.