Stephen Hawking

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Expansive Mind
Hawking's work primarily focuses on the overarching ideas that tie various fields of science together. "[He] really [gets] to the heart of the matter and [tries] to eliminate inessential details," says Don Page, one of Hawking's proteges. This photo was taken at a conference in Cape Town, 2008.

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