In search of the next Stephen Hawking"Without fanfare or ceremony, the most celebrated scientist in the country, Stephen Hawking, quietly stepped down this week from the most prestigious post in British physics."Hawking's successor as Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge University will be decided by committee this month, but as he moves on, leading physicists warn that Britain risks losing the next generation of great minds."
Ian Sample, science correspondent guardian.co.uk, Friday 2 October 2009 22.35 BST Article history
Beautiful minds
The Lucasian professorship of mathematics has been held by many of Britain's leading minds.
1669 Sir Isaac Newton, a physicist from Lincolnshire, saw that the physical laws governing the planets are the same that apply to objects on Earth. Before exposing a gravitational force, he transformed the field of optics.
1828 Charles Babbage, born in London, designed the first automatic calculator.
1932 Paul Dirac, a Bristolian born to a Swiss father and Cornish mother, was called the British Einstein. He married quantum theory with relativity, a problem that had perplexed great minds of the 20s, and predicted antimatter.1979 Stephen Hawking, an Oxford-born physicist, was appointed to the post long before achieving fame with his 1988 book A Brief History of Time. He has also predicted that black holes release radiation.
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2010 Lucasion Professorship could go to Michael Phelps
Retrieved by Pat Darnell
MooPig Human Resources Department has its money on Mike Phelps for the Lucasion Professorship position, especially after the swimming test that he completed in only twenty seconds. Compared to Steven Hawkings who has still not completed the swimming portion of the application. Phelps is Hawkings' preferred choice. Hawkings says of Phelps: "Phelps has already passed his thesis using the 'church key' shown at right, as his pivotal posit for his theory of everything;
MooPig Human Resources Department has its money on Mike Phelps for the Lucasion Professorship position, especially after the swimming test that he completed in only twenty seconds. Compared to Steven Hawkings who has still not completed the swimming portion of the application. Phelps is Hawkings' preferred choice. Hawkings says of Phelps: "Phelps has already passed his thesis using the 'church key' shown at right, as his pivotal posit for his theory of everything;
"Hey T.O.E. has its limits too," concludes Phelps.
It might have been said Hawkings has groomed the young champion gold medalist, Olympian, Michael Phelps, to be his Lucasian Professor replacement. Although some Trustees are suspicious of Hawkings' real plans.
Somebody very close to Hawkings slipped and might have said: "Steven will use new brain cell nano technology, he has developed, to enter the young swimmer's body, to inhabit, and to put his brilliant mind with the athlete's physical superiority, to make a symbiotic union of spectacular dimensions."
"Look, I can swim like a killer whale, while doing calculus in my head!!!" someone reportedly heard from the cryptic test labs late at night at the college. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
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