Stephen Hawking: Twitter reacts to death of ‘beautiful mind’

Scientists, politicians and celebrities pay tribute to man whose theories ‘unlocked the universe’

Scores of people from the worlds of science, politics and entertainment have tweeted tributes to Stephen Hawking, the pioneering British physicist and author who has died at the age of 76.

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