Stephen Hawking Chair For Sale
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Stephen hawking chair for sale. Proceeds from the chair s sale will go to two charities the stephen hawking foundation and the motor neurone disease association. Hawking used a wheelchair during his time at cambridge and for most of his life. He was the lucasian professor of mathematics at the university of cambridge between 1979 and 2009.
A motorised wheelchair used by the late british physicist stephen hawking sold at auction on thursday for almost 300 000 391 740 00 while a dissertation raised nearly twice that at a sale to. Most sufferers die within five years but fortunately for physics and for professor hawking himself his disease has progressed extremely. Proceeds from the chair s sale will go to two charities the stephen hawking foundation and the motor neurone disease association.
Als is a form of motor neurone disease which results in the progressive death of the nerves that control the muscles. Hawking s 1965 cambridge university thesis properties of. Stephen william hawking ch cbe frs frsa 8 january 1942 14 march 2018 was an english theoretical physicist cosmologist and author who was director of research at the centre for theoretical cosmology at the university of cambridge at the time of his death.
Stephen hawking was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis als when he was 21. The motorized chair used by hawking after he was paralyzed with. Dr stephen hawking in 1988 with the chair for sale at christie s image.
A motorized red and maroon leather wheelchair hawking used from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s is also for sale. The christie s sale will also include the renowned. A wheelchair used by stephen hawking will be up for sale at an online auction of some of the late physicist s most prized possessions.
