Stephen Hawking's spending puzzle
A news item with interesting information, published in this daily recently, has drawn my attention. Stephen Hawking, the former Lucasian professor of mathematics holding Isaac Newton's chair at Cambridge University, has won the Special Fundamental Physics Prize. The report suggests that Professor Hawking will have to ponder how he would spend $3 million that has landed in his bank account after winning the most lucrative science prize ever established. However, Stephen Hawking, who is widely regarded as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein, was born in 1942 on the anniversary of Galileo's death. Interestingly, his sense of humour still surprises us and encourages us to understand the value of life. In an email he said he was delighted and honoured to receive the prize. He also added, “I will help my daughter with her autistic son, and may be buy a holiday home, not that I take many holidays because I enjoy my work in theoretical physics.†However, though Professor Hawking has not yet settled on how to spend the prize money but the authorities of the Fundamental Physics Prize has clearly settled to give him prize for a lifetime of achievements, including the discovery that black holes emit radiation, and his deep contribution to quantum gravity and aspects of the early universe. May Stephen Hawking come round soon to tell us more tales of strange beauties of black holes!
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