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As we were going to press, news broke that world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking had passed away. One of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century, Hawking often mentioned the fact that his birth date was exactly 300 years after Galileo’s death. No doubt he would have enjoyed the coincidence that his death was 139 years to the day that Albert Einstein was born, too. His contributions to the world of cosmology – concerning the birth, evolution and fate of the universe – led to repeat Nobel-prize nominations, particularly for his groundbreaking theory that “black holes ain’t so black” and that some things, dubbed “Hawking radiation”, can escape after all. His last work, entitled “A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation”, was submitted just days before he died and could be his most…
