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BBC Inside Science

Stephen Hawking Tribute

BBC Inside Science

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4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Adam Rutherford presents a special tribute to the science of Stephen Hawking. He is joined by Fay Dowker, a former PhD student of Hawking and now a professor of theoretical physics at Imperial College, Professor Carlos Frenk, a long-time colleague and friend and fellow physicist and science communicator Professor Brian Cox. They look at the scientific legacy of Stephen Hawking and the role that his work played in bringing us a step closer to a single grand theory that explains how the universe works.

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0:25.9

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0:30.3

Hello You, this is Inside Science from BBC Radio for first broadcast on the 5th of

0:35.8

April 2018 and I'm Adam Rutherford today we're going into deep space the nature of

0:41.3

the cosmos black holes and beyond the infinite.

0:45.0

Stephen Hawking became at one with the universe last month,

0:48.0

and here on Inside Science we're going to unpick his scientific achievements

0:52.0

and put them in the context of the great physics discoveries

0:54.7

of the last hundred years and that other great scientific icon Albert Einstein.

0:59.7

We will look forward to how Hawking's work in the 1970s fits into the long standing quest of

1:05.6

physicist to come up with a grand unifying theory that describes how the universe works and

1:10.4

unites those fundamental pillars of physics, quantum theory and gravity.

1:16.0

So we hope you have a nice strong cup of tea and possibly a restorative digestive at the

1:21.0

ready.

1:22.0

We're joined by three professors of physics, all grandees in their respective fields.

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