Stephen Hawking - A Stephen Hawking Biography: The Greatest Scientist of Our Time
Dennis William Sciama (1926 - 1999) was a don at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He was one of the most eminent physicists of his time.
In 1963 he was informed that he was to receive a new pupil, a young man from Oxford who wished to undertake his doctoral thesis under his tutelage.
There was nothing unusual in this. Mentoring new pupils was...