We note with alarm that Dr. Stephen Hawking is, apparently, gravely ill, and has been taken to a Cambridge hospital.
Dr. Hawking, the extraordinarily gifted mathematician, physicist and cosmologist who holds the same Lucasian Chair of Mathematics previously occupied by such luminaries as Isaac Newton and Charles Babbage, has battled motor neuron disease for decades, and has in recent years been almost entirely “locked in”: unable to speak, and barely able to move any part of his body at all. It is, indeed, quite remarkable — some would say miraculous — that he has lived so long with a disease that usually claims its victims’ lives in a few short years.
We understand that Dr. Hawking’s hospitalization is due to a chest infection; his prognosis is sure to be complicated by his condition. More details will surely be forthcoming shortly.
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Poor fella.