STEPHEN HAWKING SET TO VISIT UNIVERSITY
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10:30 - 07 March 2008
One of the world's sharpest minds is to visit Leicester to talk about the origins of the universe.
Professor Stephen Hawking, the author of A Brief History of Time, is to give a lecture at the University of Leicester as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations.
The event on Wednesday, May 28, is already sold out, with tickets snapped up in advance.
Jenny Lees, of the university's marketing department, said everybody was excited.
She said: "It's lovely for the university, particularly as we are quite a science-based institution.
"The tickets were given on a first come-first served basis, but we will have a nice mix of people in the audience."
Prof Sir Alec Jeffreys, who discovered DNA fingerprinting at the university, will give a lecture as part of the celebrations.
He will look at the origins of the technology, its current worldwide use in forensics and other applications, plus potential future developments, in a lecture entitled Genetic Fingerprinting - Past, Present and Future on Wednesday, April 30, at 5.30pm.
Tickets for this lecture, which are free, are still available from:
史蒂芬·威廉·霍金，CH，CBE，FRS，FRSA（Stephen William Hawking，1942年1月8日－），英國著名物理學家，在公众评价中，被譽為是繼愛因斯坦之後最杰出的理論物理學家之一。他提出宇宙大爆炸自奇點開始，時間由此刻開始，黑洞最終會蒸發，在统一20世纪物理学的两大基础理论——爱因斯坦的相对论和普朗克的量子论方面走出了重要一步。