Stephen Hawking: Belongings of the late physicist to be shown at London's Science Museum next year

Select items from the office of the late and eminent theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking will go on display at the Science Museum in London next year. The announcement comes following an acceptance in lieu agreement, which allows families to offset tax, between the Cambridge University Library, the Science Museum Group and the UK Government. Thanks to this, Professor Hawking's considerable collection of scientific and personal papers will remain in Cambridge in the collections of the university library. This archive includes correspondence dating from 1944–2008, a first draft of a'Brief History of Time' and a highlighted script from his first cameo on'The Simpsons'. The contents of his office at Cambridge's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, meanwhile, will join the collections of the Science Museum. Among the items being preserved are Professor Hawking's personal wheelchairs -- which he needed due to motor neuron disease -- and communication equipment.