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86.17.132.104 ( talk) 09:02, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
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please amend to English. . we don't like to be called British all immigrants are british . . . its like calling an American - Canadian or vice versa
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Please change "Hawking has a motor neurone disease related..." to "Hawking has a motor neuron disease related..." (remove the "e") because "neurone" is french for "neuron" and this is on the English Wikipedia page. Thank you. 99.224.231.110 ( talk) 14:18, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
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In "Later Life and Career", 1975-1990 the second sentence has a grammar error.
"reduced so she could returned to her thesis". Should be return
Aatch ( talk) 21:02, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
"Honours continued to be awarded: in 1981 Hawking he was awarded the American Franklin Medal, and in 1982 made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)." -- The sentence has an extra he. 88.115.220.120 ( talk) 19:36, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
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in section 3.4 (2000 to present), "an desire" should be "a desire" in "Motivated by an desire both to increase public interest in spaceflight..." Windmonster ( talk) 20:34, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
Why is Hawking's tutor Robert Berman piped to Bob Berman, I'm fairly sure they're not the same person. -- 92.2.67.52 ( talk) 21:23, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
You'll see there's an extra "over" in this sentence: Spurred by a dispute over with the University over who would pay for the ramp needed for him to enter his workplace, Ranchorama ( talk) 16:07, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
I think this sentence needs a "to" in front of the word "solve": Hawking's inaugural lecture as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics was titled: "Is the end in sight for Theoretical Physics" and proposed N=8 Supergravity as the leading theory solve many of the outstanding problems physicists were studying. Ranchorama ( talk) 16:14, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
I think this sentence needs a slash, an "and/or", or hyphen between "published" and "developed": He subsequently developed the research in collaboration with Jim Hartle, and in 1983 they published developed a model Ranchorama ( talk) 16:19, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
I think this sentence needs an "an" before "extraordinary": The book was published in April 1988 in the US and in June in the UK, and proved to be extraordinary success Ranchorama ( talk) 16:27, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
I think this sentence needs an "a" before "Newsweek": Media attention was intense,[173] and Newsweek magazine cover and a television special Ranchorama ( talk) 16:29, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
I think you should replace "in" with "to" in this sentence: The particle, proposed in exist as part of the Higgs Field theory by Peter Higgs in 1964,
Ranchorama ( talk) 16:42, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
I think you should delete either "a" or "the", as well as put a comma after "Appropriately" in this sentence: Appropriately given Hawking's association with time, he unveiled the a striking new mechanical "Chronophage" Ranchorama ( talk) 16:45, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
There is a typo near the text "Proposed in exist" which should be "Proposed to exist" (talking about Higgs particles)
220.233.102.231 ( talk) 01:00, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Stephen William Hawking, the eldest son of Frank Hawking and Isobel Hawking was born on January 8, 1942. His birth was on the 300th anniversary of the death of the famous physicist Galileo in Oxford, England. Stephen inherited his great mind from his parents, with his mother being one of the first women to attend and graduate from Oxford University in the 1930s. His father was also an Oxford University graduate and became a respected medical researcher on tropical diseases. Stephen would have no choice but to feed his mind as a child, living and being in a family who ate dinner silently with each person reading a book. The Hawking family car was an old taxi and their home in St. Albans was a three floor “fixer-upper” that never got fixed.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Marcus clemmons ( talk • contribs) 06:44, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
So, is this quote in the article actually correct, or is this a joke? If correct then it would definitely need some clarifications as to how exactly was he dancing when completely paralyzed - right now it seems just like a bad joke.
-- 90.190.224.104 ( talk) 19:35, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
The reference I added clarified it. [4]
- The University of Cambridge released a statement Wednesday indicating that Hawking had told the Israelis last week that he would not be attending "based on advice from Palestinian academics that he should respect the boycott.
- University officials said they had "previously understood" that Hawking's decision was based solely on health concerns -- he is 71 and has severe disabilities -- but had now been told otherwise by Hawking's office.
So its been cleared up. His office and the university verified the story. Dream Focus 16:14, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
Note: this topic is being discussed at Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Stephen_Hawking. GabrielF ( talk) 16:46, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
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Redundancy: In St Albans, the family were considered highly intelligent and somewhat eccentric; meals often spent in silence with everyone's nose in a book. reading in silence. Fofiriam ( talk) 18:36, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
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It should be added to Stephen Hawking's page that he has joined and endorses the Boycott of Israel
Krattadam ( talk) 23:18, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
The information about Hawking's health and personal life seems intertwined in the long "Career" section at the moment. Would it be better to separate his professional achievments from his personal milestones/battles? After all, many people know him as much for his health problems/mechanical voice as they do his academic success. Sionk ( talk) 14:22, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
Re the previous thread, I have reverted a carelessly-worded redundant mention of it, but I'm actually concerned that at least some reliable reports e.g. this AP article) contradict what we're repeating in the article. Until this point is clarified (if it ever is), I think we probably should just be saying that he has canceled plans to attend. We could note that there are conflicting reports, but that's just recentism getting in the way of clear, encyclopedic writing. Rivertorch ( talk) 06:35, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
See this for example. [6] Slp1 ( talk) 13:39, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
The article says that "Hawking has estimated that he studied about 1000 hours during his three years at Oxford. These unimpressive study habits made sitting his Finals a challenge, and he decided to answer only theoretical physics questions rather than those requiring factual knowledge." The problems with this statement are so egregious that the stupidity inherent cannot be overstated. There is nothing non-factual in physics. This is graffiti of the worst sort and I would request someone to reword it without anti-science bias. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.136.192.1 ( talk) 15:44, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
Is there any available/useable photograph of Hawking standing up? It would be very useful! Hamsterlopithecus ( talk) 07:16, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
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86.17.132.104 ( talk) 09:02, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
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Please change "Hawking has a motor neurone disease related..." to "Hawking has a motor neuron disease related..." (remove the "e") because "neurone" is french for "neuron" and this is on the English Wikipedia page. Thank you. 99.224.231.110 ( talk) 14:18, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
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In "Later Life and Career", 1975-1990 the second sentence has a grammar error.
"reduced so she could returned to her thesis". Should be return
Aatch ( talk) 21:02, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
"Honours continued to be awarded: in 1981 Hawking he was awarded the American Franklin Medal, and in 1982 made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)." -- The sentence has an extra he. 88.115.220.120 ( talk) 19:36, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
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in section 3.4 (2000 to present), "an desire" should be "a desire" in "Motivated by an desire both to increase public interest in spaceflight..." Windmonster ( talk) 20:34, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
Why is Hawking's tutor Robert Berman piped to Bob Berman, I'm fairly sure they're not the same person. -- 92.2.67.52 ( talk) 21:23, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
You'll see there's an extra "over" in this sentence: Spurred by a dispute over with the University over who would pay for the ramp needed for him to enter his workplace, Ranchorama ( talk) 16:07, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
I think this sentence needs a "to" in front of the word "solve": Hawking's inaugural lecture as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics was titled: "Is the end in sight for Theoretical Physics" and proposed N=8 Supergravity as the leading theory solve many of the outstanding problems physicists were studying. Ranchorama ( talk) 16:14, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
I think this sentence needs a slash, an "and/or", or hyphen between "published" and "developed": He subsequently developed the research in collaboration with Jim Hartle, and in 1983 they published developed a model Ranchorama ( talk) 16:19, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
I think this sentence needs an "an" before "extraordinary": The book was published in April 1988 in the US and in June in the UK, and proved to be extraordinary success Ranchorama ( talk) 16:27, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
I think this sentence needs an "a" before "Newsweek": Media attention was intense,[173] and Newsweek magazine cover and a television special Ranchorama ( talk) 16:29, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
I think you should replace "in" with "to" in this sentence: The particle, proposed in exist as part of the Higgs Field theory by Peter Higgs in 1964,
Ranchorama ( talk) 16:42, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
I think you should delete either "a" or "the", as well as put a comma after "Appropriately" in this sentence: Appropriately given Hawking's association with time, he unveiled the a striking new mechanical "Chronophage" Ranchorama ( talk) 16:45, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
There is a typo near the text "Proposed in exist" which should be "Proposed to exist" (talking about Higgs particles)
220.233.102.231 ( talk) 01:00, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Stephen William Hawking, the eldest son of Frank Hawking and Isobel Hawking was born on January 8, 1942. His birth was on the 300th anniversary of the death of the famous physicist Galileo in Oxford, England. Stephen inherited his great mind from his parents, with his mother being one of the first women to attend and graduate from Oxford University in the 1930s. His father was also an Oxford University graduate and became a respected medical researcher on tropical diseases. Stephen would have no choice but to feed his mind as a child, living and being in a family who ate dinner silently with each person reading a book. The Hawking family car was an old taxi and their home in St. Albans was a three floor “fixer-upper” that never got fixed.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Marcus clemmons ( talk • contribs) 06:44, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
So, is this quote in the article actually correct, or is this a joke? If correct then it would definitely need some clarifications as to how exactly was he dancing when completely paralyzed - right now it seems just like a bad joke.
-- 90.190.224.104 ( talk) 19:35, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
The reference I added clarified it. [4]
- The University of Cambridge released a statement Wednesday indicating that Hawking had told the Israelis last week that he would not be attending "based on advice from Palestinian academics that he should respect the boycott.
- University officials said they had "previously understood" that Hawking's decision was based solely on health concerns -- he is 71 and has severe disabilities -- but had now been told otherwise by Hawking's office.
So its been cleared up. His office and the university verified the story. Dream Focus 16:14, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
Note: this topic is being discussed at Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Stephen_Hawking. GabrielF ( talk) 16:46, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
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Redundancy: In St Albans, the family were considered highly intelligent and somewhat eccentric; meals often spent in silence with everyone's nose in a book. reading in silence. Fofiriam ( talk) 18:36, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
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It should be added to Stephen Hawking's page that he has joined and endorses the Boycott of Israel
Krattadam ( talk) 23:18, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
The information about Hawking's health and personal life seems intertwined in the long "Career" section at the moment. Would it be better to separate his professional achievments from his personal milestones/battles? After all, many people know him as much for his health problems/mechanical voice as they do his academic success. Sionk ( talk) 14:22, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
Re the previous thread, I have reverted a carelessly-worded redundant mention of it, but I'm actually concerned that at least some reliable reports e.g. this AP article) contradict what we're repeating in the article. Until this point is clarified (if it ever is), I think we probably should just be saying that he has canceled plans to attend. We could note that there are conflicting reports, but that's just recentism getting in the way of clear, encyclopedic writing. Rivertorch ( talk) 06:35, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
See this for example. [6] Slp1 ( talk) 13:39, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
The article says that "Hawking has estimated that he studied about 1000 hours during his three years at Oxford. These unimpressive study habits made sitting his Finals a challenge, and he decided to answer only theoretical physics questions rather than those requiring factual knowledge." The problems with this statement are so egregious that the stupidity inherent cannot be overstated. There is nothing non-factual in physics. This is graffiti of the worst sort and I would request someone to reword it without anti-science bias. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.136.192.1 ( talk) 15:44, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
Is there any available/useable photograph of Hawking standing up? It would be very useful! Hamsterlopithecus ( talk) 07:16, 23 May 2013 (UTC)