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A WHEELCHAIR used by physicist Stephen Hawking has sold for $ 540,600, while a copy of his doctoral thesis collected more than $ 1.05 million, Christie's revealed this week.
The red, leather motorized chair was used by the physicist after he was paralyzed with motor neuron disease and was initially expected to raise $ 26,900.
Proceeds from the wheelchair will be distributed between two charities, the Stephen Hawking Foundation and the Motor Neurone Disease Association.
Prof. Hawking's 1965 Cambridge University thesis, "Properties of Expanding Universes," sold for more than $ 1.05 million, more than three times more than its pre-sale estimate, in the online auction.
With the motor neuron disease at the age of 22 and given just a few years to live, Prof. Hawking instead died in March at the age of 76.
He is a scientist of the world and the world of the world, celebrity status, writing best selling books and guest starring The Simpsons.
A Hawking items for a TV show sold for $ 11,235 Prof Hawking items, while a $ 530,000 collection of his medals and awards.
His daughter, Lucy, said the sale has "admirers of his work the chance to acquire a memento of our father's extraordinary life in the shape of a small selection of evocative and fascinating items".
Hawking's children hope to preserve their scientific archive for the nation.
Christie's Auction House is handling the negotiations to hand over to British authorities in place of inheritance tax.
The nine-day online auction, "On The Shoulders of Giants", including Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein.
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