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LONDON (Reuters) – The late British physicist Stephen Hawking, whose copy of his doctoral thesis, has sold over 1.8 million pounds (£ 2 million) at a sale to Online auctions, said Christie's. Hawker, who died on March 14 in the British city of Cambridge at the age of 76, has been offered 22 items for sale …
LONDON (Reuters) – The late British physicist Stephen Hawking, whose copy of his doctoral thesis, has sold over 1.8 million pounds (£ 2 million) at a sale to Online auctions, said Christie's.
Hawking, who died on March 14 in the British city of Cambridge at the age of 76, has been offered an auction between Oct. 31 and Nov. 8.
A signed copy of Hawking's 1965 thesis titled "Characteristics of Expanding Universe" was sold for £ 584,750 (€ 671,293).
The thesis, written by Hawking at the age of 24, caused the collapse of the Cambridge University website when it was published in 2017.
The Hawking wheelchair was auctioned for £ 296,750 (€ 340,669).
"We are very pleased to assist Christiez in keeping the archives of our beloved father and this unique and valuable collection of personal and professional items that record his life and work," said Lucy Hawking, daughter British scientist.
Proceeds from the auction will be awarded to the Stephen Hawking Foundation, which was established to support cosmology studies, and the Society of Neurological Diseases, which studies the disease of the most famous of all worlds.
Hawking, who rejected the knighthood of Queen Elizabeth II of England, helped lay the foundation for modern cosmology.
The ashes of Hawking were buried at Westminster Abbey in London, alongside mathematician Isaac Newton and evolutionist Charles Darwin.
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