Stephen Hawking dead: Physicist and author of A Brief History of Time dies at age 76
(World News Science)

The iconic British physicist Professor Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76, a spokesman for his family has said. Known as one of the world`s finest scientific minds, he died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday morning. In a statement, his children Lucy, Robert and Tim said: `We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away...