In his 2001 visit to India, Stephen Hawking met then President K.R. Narayanan at Rashtrapati Bhavan and told him, "Indians are so good at mathematics and physics".
At the age of 70, he participated in the Opening Ceremonies of the 2012 Paralympic Games in London sending out the message for all crippled people across the world.
Cambridge University, where theoretical physicist Hawking spent most of his life time, has opened a condolence book in the college and many students and staff have written on it, mourning the death of the British genius.
Apart from being one of the most shining stars in the world of science, the life of Hawking is also a motivation to many people who suffer from chronic disorders
Exactly two months ago, on Jan 8, 2018, conspiracy theorists claimed that physicist Stephen Hawking died in 1985 and that his look-alike was seen later.
Famous chair-ridden stephen Hawking died peacefully in his sleep, said his family. He is survived by three children -- Robert, Lucy and Timothy -- from his first marriage to Jane Wilde, and three grandchildren.
Michio Kaku, a renowned theoretical physicist and futurologist has warned humans to look for another planet to live or face extinction in case of an extra-terrestrial contact
Renowned futurologist Ian Pearson says robots in the future will be very insensitive and cruel towards humans, and may conduct experiments on humans with newly created viruses, the way we do on guinea pigs.
The robotic clones would have the capacity to answer questions related to the weather, what time it is and daily life and can communicate their relatives.
Even though the claims seem outlandish, conspiracy theorists point out five signs which substantiate that the Hawking which we see now is not the original
The astronomers have made a series of amazing discoveries in the space arena in the year 2017 that has eventually led the space buffs to get new interesting information.
Hawking made the comments on interstellar asteroid Oumuamu based on the findings from the largest-ever scientific research programme, Breakthrough Listen.