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Stephen Hawking’s doctoral thesis goes online, crashing website

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LONDON — Cambridge University has put Stephen Hawking’s doctoral thesis online, triggering such interest that it crashed the university’s website.

Completed in 1966 when Hawking was 24, “Properties of Expanding Universes” explores ideas about the origins of the universe that have resonated throughout the scientist’s career.

The university says the thesis was already the most-requested item in its online repository.

It was free to download Monday to mark Open Access Week.

Hawking said he hoped making his thesis available to all would “inspire people around the world to look up at the stars and not down at their feet; to wonder about our place in the universe and to try and make sense of the cosmos.”

 


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