LONDON — Stephen Hawking, whose brilliant mind ranged across time and space though his body was paralyzed by disease, has died, a family spokesman said. `He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years,` his children, Lucy, Robert and Tim, said in a statement. The best-known theoretical physicist of his time, Hawking wrote so lucidly of the mysteries of space, time and black holes that his book, `A Brief History of Time,` became an international best seller, making him one of science`s...
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