Too ill to travel, Hawking will appear in Houston by video
Source: Houston Chronicle
Stephen Hawking, a brilliant theoretical physicist and putatively the world's most famous living scientist, is too ill to travel to Houston from Britain for a public lecture.
Doctors would not allow trans-Atlantic travel for the 71-year-old, who has lived for half a century with a motor neuron disease.
"He is in frail condition, and his doctors have very specifically forbid him from traveling across the Atlantic Ocean," said Scott Brogan, the founding and executive director of the Brilliant Lecture Series, which organized the talk to be given Tuesday night at Jones Hall.
"He feels horrible about not being able to be here personally."
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