The life of popular physicist and author Stephen Hawking was commemorated Saturday in English city of Cambridge, with numerous well-wishers lining the streets for a look of the hearse bring his remains to a personal funeral service.
There was a spontaneous burst of applause outside St. Mary the Great church when the hearse showed up. The bells of the church tolled 76 times, one for each year of Hawking’s amazing life.
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Hawking was kept in mind as a brave male who thrived over motor neurone illness by continuing his research study into space and time after paralysis embeded in and his muscles faded.
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Some 500 welcomed visitors went to the funeral service for Hawking, who passed away on March 14.
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Star Eddie Redmayne, who depicted the researcher in the 2014 biographical movie “The Theory of Whatever,” offered a reading from Ecclesiastes throughout the service. There was likewise a reading by Astronomer Royal Martin Reese and eulogies by among Hawking’s kids and a previous trainee.
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Hawking’s household launched a declaration stating they opted to hold the funeral “in the city that he enjoyed a lot and which enjoyed him.”
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Flags were reduced to half-mast in lots of parts of Cambridge to commemorate Hawking. The service was officiated by the Rev. Cally Hammond, Dean of Cambridge University’s Gonville and Caius College, where Hawking was a fellow for 52 years.
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A personal reception was held later at Trinity College.
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Hawking was understood for his groundbreaking research study into great voids and other phenomena. He was likewise the very popular author of “A Short History of Time” and other books and a popular culture figure understood for, to name a few things, his look on “The Simpsons” TELEVISION series.
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Hawking will be cremated at a later date and his ashes are to be interred at London’s Westminster Abbey near the remains of fellow researcher Isaac Newton.
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