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The physicist follows Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking into the Lucasian chair of mathematics at the University of Cambridge. Congratulations. How did it feel when you heard the news? I was very pleasantly surprised - but also overawed. Full Article at New Scientist
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As we recently noted, Stephen Hawking has stepped down from the Lucasian Chair at Cambridge. The chair didn’t stay empty for long. It has been announced that Michael Green will become the new Lucasian Professor. Full Article at Cosmic Variance
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Professor Michael Green is to succeed Professor Stephen Hawking as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Cambridge University has announced. Full Article at People's Daily Online
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A Cambridge physicist who revolutionized the concept of string theory has been tapped to succeed Steven Hawking in one of the world's most prestigious academic posts. Full Article at The Register
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A Cambridge physicist who pioneered the idea that everything in the universe is made up of tiny vibrating strings of energy is to replace Stephen Hawking in the most prestigious academic post in the world. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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We are participators ... in bringing about something of the universe in the distant past.
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there was a moment, a day ... which I remember well, when suddenly everything fell into place at once. We were working on a particular aspect which we hoped – there was no reason to expect it to, but we secretly hoped – would work. And it did. But immediately, within a couple of hours, something else wo...
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Michael Green has played a leading role in theoretical physics in the Department since 1993. He is internationally known as a pioneer in string theory which over the last 20 years has become one of the most important and active areas of the field
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Most students want to be the next Newton, Dirac or Hawking ... They want to think for themselves on really foundational problems. Physicists are paid barely sustenance wages for working their socks off on really hard problems. You can't then go and tell them what they should be working on. You mustn't c...
– Neil Turok SOURCE: The Observer
