Stephen Hawking
1942 – 2018 · United Kingdom · Physics, Astronomy
Hawking radiation and A Brief History of Time.
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- Albert Einstein
1879 – 1955 · Physics
Hawking radiation joins general relativity to quantum field theory at the horizon.
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