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Stephen Hawking hospitalized, reported very ill

LONDON (AP) — Cambridge University says famed mathematician Stephen Hawking has been rushed to a hospital and is very ill.The university said Hawking had been fighting a chest infection for several weeks, and on Monday he was taken to Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, north of London.

The 67-year-old Hawking gained renown for his work on black holes, and has remained active despite being stricken with motor neurone disease as a young man.

For some years, Hawking has been almost entirely paralyzed, and he communicates through an electronic device activated by his fingers.

Prof Hawking suffers from motor neurone disease and is wheelchair bound. He speaks with the help of a voice synthesizer.

He developed symptoms of the disease while studying in the 1960s and is one of the world”s longest surviving sufferers.

He has worked at Cambridge”s Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics for more than 30 years and since 1979 has been the University”s Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.

Prof Hawking was awarded a CBE in 1982, became a Companion of Honour in 1989 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

He lives in Cambridge and has three children and one grandchild.

Prof Hawking was born in Oxford but his family moved to St Albans, Hertfordshire, when he was eight.

He studied at St Albans School before reading physics at University College Oxford then moving to Cambridge to carry out research in cosmology.

One of Prof Hawking”s last public appearances was last September when he unveiled a £1 million clock erected at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

“Professor Hawking is very ill and has today been taken by ambulance to Addenbrooke”s Hospital, Cambridge,” said the University spokesman.

“He is undergoing tests. He has been unwell for a couple of weeks.”

Professor Peter Haynes, Head of the University”s Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, added: “Professor Hawking is a remarkable colleague. We all hope he will be amongst us again soon.”

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