Stephen Hawking auction: what’s on sale

The late physicist’s groundbreaking 1965 Cambridge PhD thesis is among almost two dozen items going under hammer

Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking died in March
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Fans of Stephen Hawking are being offered the chance to buy personal possessions left by the late physicist including his doctoral thesis, his wheelchair and a script from an episode of The Simpsons in which he featured.

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