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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 539

Stephen Hawking

The new FAST telescope in China is the largest radio telescope ever built. (Video screenshot)
April 30, 2022, 7:41 am
Alien-hunting scientists controversially want to blast out Earth’s location
Stephen Hawking warned of danger of contacting aliens with superior tech, saying they could destroy humanity; others say advanced civilization would already know of our existence
By chris impey
Britain's Professor Stephen Hawking receives the Honorary Freedom of the City of London during a ceremony at the Guildhall in the City of London, March 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, file)
April 22, 2020, 4:00 pm
Stephen Hawking’s ventilator donated to British hospital
Family of the late physicist gives breathing machine to medical center in Cambridge where he received treatment, so it can be used for COVID-19 patients
By AFP
Jeffrey Epstein, center, is shown in custody in West Palm Beach, Florida on July 30, 2008 (Uma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post via AP, File)
August 1, 2019, 9:27 am
Report: Epstein wanted to spread his DNA by impregnating 20 women at his ranch
NY financier accused of sex trafficking of minors was interested in eugenics, would surround himself with top scientists who entertained his ‘half-baked’ ideas, New York Times says
By ToI Staff and Agencies
399485 01: Physicist Stephen Hawking smiles during a symposium in honor of his birthday at the University of Cambridge January 11, 2002 in Cambridge, England. (Sion Touhig/Getty Images, via JTA)
March 14, 2018, 11:43 pm
Israeli academic inspired one of Stephen Hawking’s biggest discoveries
Scientist Jacob Bekenstein, who later taught at Hebrew University for 25 years, sparred with preeminent theoretical physicist before they cooperated on black holes
By JTA
British physicist Stephen Hawking attends a conference with Israeli high school students at the Bloomfield Museum of Science in Jerusalem December 10, 2006 (photo credit: Orel Cohen/Flash90)
March 14, 2018, 5:59 am
Stephen Hawking, who sought to unlock secrets of the universe, dies at age 76
Britain’s most famous modern-day scientist had been expected to live only a few years after crippled with ALS; family mourns ‘an extraordinary man whose legacy will live on’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Arnold Schwarzenegger as 'The Terminator' (Publicity)
November 17, 2017, 9:36 pm
UN panel agrees to move ahead with debate on ‘killer robots’
Advocacy groups warn of threats from autonomous, computer-controlled weapons; Israel and Russia opposed to any formal ban
By Jamey Keaten
Famed physicist Stephen Hawking. (CC-BY elhombredenegro/Flickr)
August 17, 2016, 10:52 am
Israeli scientist may have proved Hawking’s black hole theory
40 years after the controversial proposal, Technion researcher’s findings could pave Nobel path for famed physicist
By ToI Staff
Famed physicist Stephen Hawking. (CC-BY elhombredenegro/Flickr)
April 27, 2016, 9:07 pm
Israeli-made ‘black hole’ could win Stephen Hawking a Nobel
After 40 years of speculation, a Technion physicist may have proved the groundbreaking ‘Hawking Radiation’ theory
By ToI Staff
Russian Jewish billionaire investor Yuri Milner and famed cosmologist Stephen Hawking host a press conference to announce Breakthrough Starshot, a new space exploration initiative, at One World Observatory on April 12, 2016 in New York City. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize Foundation/AFP)
April 12, 2016, 11:31 pm
Billionaire, famed cosmologist unveil plan to reach Alpha Centauri
Light-propelled ‘nanocraft’ riding laser sails at one-fifth the speed of light may be humanity’s first interstellar messengers
By AFP
Russian Jewish entrepreneur and co-founder of the Breakthrough Prize, Yuri Milner, attends a press conference in London on July 20, 2015, where he and British cosmologist Stephen Hawking announced the launch of Breakthrough Listen Initiative, a new effort to detect intelligent life in the cosmos. (AFP photo/Niklas Halle'n)
July 23, 2015, 3:48 am
Jewish tech billionaire partners with Hawking in $100m. search for alien life
Yuri Milner, who is funding the Breakthrough Listen initiative, calls it the most intensive scientific bid ever to find signs of alien civilization
By Robin MILLARD
British Foreign Secretary William Hague at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem, in May 2013 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90/File)
May 23, 2013, 6:02 pm
Visiting British FM boosts science cooperation with Israel
Days after UK scientist Stephen Hawking announces boycott, William Hague hails ‘tremendous’ joint work by Israeli and British universities
By Stuart Winer
Minister Yuval Steinitz at a Foreign Affairs and Defense committee meeting in Jerusalem on May 20, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)
May 23, 2013, 6:33 am
Intel minister Steinitz says UK-Israel ties souring
‘Difficult to say’ if London still a good friend, Steinitz tells British paper, lashing out at Stephen Hawking for ‘disguised anti-Semitism’
By ToI Staff
Famed physicist Stephen Hawking. (CC-BY elhombredenegro/Flickr)
May 12, 2013, 5:51 pm
Conference boycotted by Hawking has hosted Palestinian speakers every year
Top West Bank figures, including key PA officials, regularly participate in Peres-hosted gathering that top British scientist is eschewing in solidarity with the Palestinians
By ToI Staff and Aaron Kalman
Secular and ultra-Orthodox residents of Jerusalem stand side by side at a protest in Jerusalem against the impending budget cuts proposed by Finance Minister Yair Lapid, Saturday May 11. (photo credit: Yifa Yaakov/The Times of Israel)
May 12, 2013, 12:37 pm
Guns or butter
Pictures of thousands marching in Tel Aviv dominate front pages, but journalists are more concerned with the coming fight over Defense Ministry cuts
By Joshua Davidovich
British physicist Stephen Hawking at a conference with Israeli high school students in Jerusalem in December 2006. (photo credit: Orel Cohen/Flash90)
From the WebMay 12, 2013, 8:24 am
Noam Chomsky helped lobby Stephen Hawking to stage Israel boycott
The Guardian: US professor among 20 academics who urged wheelchair-bound physicist to stay away from Presidential Conference
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