A total of 22 personal items used by cosmic visionary Stephen Hawking will be open for bids between October 31 and November 8.
The online sale announced on Monday by auctioneer Christie’s features 22 items from Hawking, including his doctoral thesis on the origins of the universe, some of his many awards, and scientific papers such as Spectrum of Wormholes and Fundamental Breakdown of Physics in Gravitational Collapse .
The auction includes one of five existing copies of Hawking’s 1965 Cambridge University Ph.D. thesis, Properties of Expanding Universes , which carries an estimated price of 100,000 pounds to 150,000 pounds.
Source: THE HINDU-23rd October,2018
