Physicist Stephen Hawking, famous for his work with black holes and relativity, died in his home in Cambridge, England on March 14. He was 76. Hawking wrote “A Brief History of Time” and was portrayed by Oscar-winner actor Eddie Redmayne in “The Theory of Everything.”
Read what some Jewish personalities and publications are saying about him.
Rest in peace Dr. Hawking. Now you’re free of any physical constraints.. Your brilliance and wisdom will be cherished forever ✨ pic.twitter.com/EQzSxqNTuN
— Gal Gadot (@GalGadot) March 14, 2018
As we near Pi day (3.14) I join the global community in mourning the loss of the greatest physicist of our era. #StephenHawking is free from the physical constraints of this earthly condition we all exist in and he is soaring above us now marveling at it all. pic.twitter.com/o3V0TZrppj
— Mayim Bialik (@missmayim) March 14, 2018
Goodbye to the great #StephenHawking, and thank you for your grace, your intellect, your vision, your light and your inspiration.
— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) March 14, 2018
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Today is Einstein’s birthday. I suspect he is very much looking forward to meeting Stephen Hawking.
— Walter Isaacson (@WalterIsaacson) March 14, 2018
Stephen Hawking’s most famous formula provides the entropy of a black hole in terms of the area of its event horizon. (Credit for discovery shared with Jacob Bekenstein.) pic.twitter.com/wiPlDnGm58
— Brian Greene (@bgreene) March 15, 2018
“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
– Stephen Hawking, Der Spiegel (17 October 1988) pic.twitter.com/XeQDyJiq5o— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) March 14, 2018
Science mourns Stephen Hawking’s death https://t.co/B0hv2BjRNC (via @sciam) pic.twitter.com/ITWP2oNd58
— Albert Einstein (@AlbertEinstein) March 15, 2018
Stephen Hawking dies aged 76: Rabbi Lord Sacks recalls time at Cambridge with physicist https://t.co/JBvVmIx4X2
— Jewish News (@jewishnewseng) March 14, 2018
The world mourns Stephen Hawking today. A brilliant thinker and principled man. pic.twitter.com/ITL9l2BEDs
— JewishVoiceForPeace (@jvplive) March 14, 2018
Stephen Hawking was critical of Israel and supported BDS, but also visited Israel a number of times and based his revolutionary theory on the works of an Israeli scientisthttps://t.co/lNE86tgYkd
— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) March 14, 2018
The device Stephen Hawking used to communicate was developed in Israel, and yet he advocated boycotting the one country that without, he and his ideas would have remained silent forever. Much justice is waiting for him.
— JudeaPride.Com (@JudeaPride) March 14, 2018
Maximum respect to Stephen Hawking that in 2013 refused to participate of a conference in #Israel to protest against occupation of #Palestinehttps://t.co/4caLcp1ssi#BDS pic.twitter.com/saKf4tHBZk
— #JewsAgainstZionism (@Zionocracy) March 14, 2018
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