UPDATE: Stephen Hawking dies on the birthday of Albert Einstein.

Stephen W. Hawking, the Cambridge University physicist and best-selling author who roamed the cosmos from a wheelchair, pondering the nature of gravity and the origin of the universe and becoming an emblem of human determination and curiosity, died early Wednesday at his home in Cambridge, England.

He was 76.
His death was confirmed by a spokesman for Cambridge University.

“Not since Albert Einstein has a scientist so captured the public imagination and endeared himself to tens of millions of people around the world,” Michio Kaku, a professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York, said in an interview.

Stephen Hawking was born on the date of Galileo’s death, the 8th of January.

He has died on the date of Albert Einstein’s birth, the 14th of March.

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