{"id":285596,"date":"2018-03-14T14:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T08:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=285596"},"modified":"2018-03-14T14:00:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T08:30:27","slug":"brightest-star-of-science-stephen-hawking-dies-at-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/brightest-star-of-science-stephen-hawking-dies-at-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightest star of science Stephen Hawking dies at 76"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">One of the brightest stars in the history of science, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Stephen_Hawking.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-28354 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Stephen_Hawking-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen_Hawking\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" data-id=\"28354\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stephen Hawking\u00a0breathed his last at age 76 on March 14. Hawking died peacefully at his home in Cambridge, his family said.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">The author of\u00a0<em>The Theory of Everything\u00a0<\/em>went on to inspire the world despite battling a type of motor neurone disease that left him wheelchair bound for 54 years. Best known for his lucid writing on black holes, space and aliens, Hawking \u200bbecame \u200bthe renowned theoretical physicist\u200b in the science world\u200b.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Hawking was told that he would not survive more than two years after diagnosed with the disease but continued to\u200blive\u200b\u200b with a happy family and \u200bmake path-breaking contributions to science till the age of 76, as per reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Hawking\u2019s children Lucy, Robert and Tim released a statement expressing grief on his demise: \u201cWe are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today. He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years. His courage and persistence with his brilliance and humour inspired people across the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Hawking famous quote which the world will forever remember, \u201cI\u2019m not afraid of death, but I\u2019m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the brightest stars in the history of science, Stephen Hawking\u00a0breathed his last at age 76 on March 14. Hawking died peacefully at his home in Cambridge, his family said.\u00a0\u00a0 The author of\u00a0The Theory of Everything\u00a0went on to inspire the world despite battling a type of motor neurone disease that left him wheelchair bound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":28354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,39],"tags":[832,833,834,835,836],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}