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NAME: Hawking, Dr. Stephen William
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ORIGIN: Human
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BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS: Considered one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists of 20th-century Earth. Hawking developed a quantum theory of gravity, in which he sought to link the two major theories of physics: quantum mechanics and relativity. Hawking also speculated on the existence of wormholes and quantum fluctuations linking multiple universes. Hawking's scientific achievements were all the more remarkable because he was afflicted with a debilitating neural disease that kept him confined to a wheelchair, able to speak only with the aid of a speech-synthesis computer. Commander Data devised a holodeck program that allowed him to play  poker with Dr. Hawking, Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton. A copy of Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time, was in Data's future Cambridge library in Q's alternate history timeline.
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