Dr. Hawking prognosis: Full recovery expected

William Atkins
Wednesday, 22 April 2009 18:44

Science - Space

According to officials at Cambridge University, famed mathematician and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking is expected to make a full recovery from his serious bout with a chest infection.


Hawking was hospitalized on Monday, April 20, 2009, at Addenbrooke Hospital in England, with a chest infection that he had been battling for several weeks.

For additional information on the original story, please read the April 21, 2009 iTWire article “Stephen Hawking hospitalized but comfortable.”

Hawking remains admitted, as of Wednesday morning, at the same U.K. hospital for observation as he recovers from his illness.

According to Dr. Hawking's website, "Professor Hawking is being kept in for observation at Addenbrooke's hospital this morning. He is comfortable and his family is looking forward to him making a full recovery.”

Dr. Hawking recently relinquished his role as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, however, continues to work for Cambridge University as an Emeritus Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.

For more information on the work of Dr. Hawking, please read the PBS article “Stephen Hawking’s Universe.”

The series of articles on the PBS website states, “The British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking (1942-) has devoted much of his life to probing the space-time described by general relativity and the singularities where it breaks down. And he’s done most of this work while confined to a wheelchair, brought on by the progressive neurological disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, a post once held by Isaac Newton.”