Waterloo lures Hawking

Posted by John Malloy on 11/27/2008

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Renowned scientist Stephen Hawking has agreed to make Canada his ”second research home,” accepting an appointment as a distinguished research chair at Waterloo’s Perimeter Institute, the scientific research organization founded by BlackBerry inventor Michael Lazaridis.

Prof. Hawking, who has close ties with the institute’s new director, will make his first visit to Waterloo this summer. He is expected to stay about six weeks and make the journey each year.

”I am honoured to accept the first Distinguished Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute,” Prof. Hawking said in a statement released Thursday. ”The Institute’s twin focus, on quantum theory and gravity, is very close to my heart and central to explaining the origin of the Universe.”

Prof. Hawking indicated that he expects his new appointment will lead to a growing partnership between the Canadian institute and the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at Cambridge University…

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