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Scientific Publication: 'Black Hole Explosions?'

1974

Time Travellers invitation

2013

Scientific publication: 'The Boundary Conditions of the Universe'

1981-1982

Dissertation: Properties of Expanding Universes

1966

Custom-made speech synthesiser for Stephen Hawking

1985-1995

Beach ball with cosmic microwave background

Model of the Flying Scotsman locomotive

2013-2014

Framed montage photograph of Stephen Hawking with Marilyn Monroe

1992

Scientific Publication: 'Spectrum of Wormholes'

1990

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Brian Whitt, titled: Gravity: a quantum theory?

1988

Blackboard covered with Graffiti

1980

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

1982

Wheelchair programmer

Permobil C350 wheelchair

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Paul Shellard, titled: Quantum Effects in the Early Universe

1986

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Friedel Epple, titled: String scattering amplitudes and effective action for toroidal orientifolds

2006

Cast Photo from Star Trek: The Next Generation

1993

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Alexander Kaus, titled: Extremal charged brane world black holes

2011

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Giovanni Paolo Procopio, titled: Black holes on the brane

2007

Book about the Quran gifted to Stephen Hawking

Research dissertation by Hawking's student Fay Dowker

1989

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Paul Davis, titled: Hidden symmetries of higher dimensional black holes

2006

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Nicholas Warner, titled: Non-Perturbative Quantum Gravity

1982

Coxing blazer worn by Stephen Hawking when thrown into river

1960s

Lava lamp

2010-2015

Bet on the 'Black Hole Information Paradox'

1997

Book with proceedings of the 1982 Nuffield workshop "The Very Early Universe"

1983

Book: Nicholas Copernicus's Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres in its standard English transiation from the Latin (1955)

1995

The Prince of Asturias Award

1989

Group photograph at Stephen Hawking's 60th Birthday conference

2002-2003

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Fay Dowker, titled: Space-time wormholes

1990

Fan heater used in Stephen Hawking's office

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Ian Moss, titled: Phase transitions in the early universe

1982

Plastic travel suitcase

2000-2012

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Mike Cassidy, titled: Quantum field theory and acausal spacetimes

1998

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Justin Hayward, titled: Black holes in two dimensions

1995

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Jonathan Halliwell, titled: The initial state of the universe (1986)

1986

Scientific bet on Cygnus X-1 containing a black hole

1974

Playboy magazine issue with interview of Stephen Hawking

1990

DECtalk Express voice synthesiser

Essay submitted for the Adams Prize by Stephen Hawking, with a geometrical approach to the big bang theory of the universe

1966

Membership insignia of the Pontificial Academy of Sciences

1986

Eyeglasses with infrared cheek movement sensor

2014

Stephen Hawking's speech synthesizer board

1985-1988

Model of a space shuttle

1990-2003

Kettle

2000-2010

Microwave oven with Barack Obama sticker

2006-2010

Journal issue of General Relativity and Gravitation from 1979

1979

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Marika Taylor, titled: Problems in M theory

1999

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Christopher Hunter, titled: The nuts and bolts of entropy

1999