Stephen Hawking and Waterloo Region

From the Globe and Mail today:

Waterloo lures Hawking

ELIZABETH CHURCH

Globe and Mail Update
November 27, 2008 at 11:00 AM EST

Renowned scientist Stephen Hawking has agreed to make Canada his ”second research home,” accepting an appointment as a distinguished research chair at Waterloo’s Perimeter Institute, the scientific research organization founded by BlackBerry inventor Michael Lazaridis.

Prof. Hawking, who has close ties with the institute’s new director, will make his first visit to Waterloo this summer. He is expected to stay about six weeks and make the journey each year.

”I am honoured to accept the first Distinguished Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute,” Prof. Hawking said in a statement released Thursday. ”The Institute’s twin focus, on quantum theory and gravity, is very close to my heart and central to explaining the origin of the Universe.”

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