PAT: BREAKING NEWS, THE WORLD
LOSES ONE OF ITS GREATEST MINDS,
STEPHEN HAWKING HAS DIED.
JEFF: THE PHYSICIST OF THE 76
YEARS OLD.
PAT: HE DE DEAL WITH LOU GEHRIG'S
DISEASE SINCE HIS 20s.
REPORTER: CALTECH TWEETED OUT
THEY ARE IN MORNING OVER HIS
PASSING, HE SOMETIMES WORKED
HERE AND GAVE SPEECHES, WE LOOK
BACK AT HIS BRILLIANT MIND AND
HUMOR.
STEPHEN HAWKING WAS ONE OF THE
GREATEST SCIENTISTS OF OUR TIME,
CALLED A 21st CENTURY ALBERT
EINSTEIN, FAMOUS ON HIS WORKS
FROM ORIGINS OF UNIVERSE.
BUYINGDIAGNOSED WITH LOU
DISEASE AS A YOUNG
FOR ME QUITE AN ACHIEVEMENT,
I THEREFORE THOUGHT I WOULD GET
SO FAR.
REPORTER: HIS 1988 BOOK, A BRIEF
HISTORY OF TIME MADE HIM A
BESTSELLER, HE MADE SEVERAL
CAMEOS ON THE "BIG BANG THEORY"
AND APPEARED TO "THE SIMPSONS."
I SEE IT AS A FRUITSOPIA.
THE EPISODE OF VERY FUNNY.
MANY PEOPLE KNOW ME THROUGH "THE
SIMPSONS" AS THROUGH MY SCIENCE.
REPORTER: PRESIDENT OBAMA
AWARDED HAWKING THE MEDAL OF
FREEDOM IN 2009.
A BRILLIANT MAN, A MEDIOCRE
STUDENT.
REPORTER: HE KEPT PUSHING WITH A
ZERO GRAVITY FLIGHT IN 2007, A
LIFE LONG AMBITION.
FIRST TIME IN 40 YEARS HE COULD
MOVE WITHOUT HIS WHEELCHAIR.
HIS PASSING HAS LEFT AN
INTELLECTUAL VACUUM IN AS A
WAKE.
PERMIATEING FABRIC OF
SPACE-TIME.
STEPHEN HAWKING WAS 76, STUDENTS
HERE TWEETING OUT MEMORIES
SAYING HE INSPIRED THEM TO
BECOME PHYSICISTS.
BACK TO YOU.
PAT: ALL RIGHT.
THANK YOU.
TONIGHT FOLKS BEHIND "BIG
BANG THEORY" TWEETED IN LOVING
MEMO OF STEPHEN HAWKING IT WAS
AN HONOR, THANK YOU FOR
INSPIRING US AND THE WORLD.
JEFF: ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY WHO
