The year 1959 started with a bang: January 2 saw the thirty-two-year-old Fidel Castro sweeping to power in Cuba; a month later Buddy Holly died in a plane crash and Indira Gandhi became the leader of ...
On this day, March 14, the scientific world not only commemorates one of the most significant physicists of the 20th and early 21st centuries, but also an extraordinary personality: Stephen Hawking.