Proceeds from its sale will go to two charities, the Stephen Hawking Foundation and the Motor Neurone Disease Association. Venning said the wheelchair became a symbol not just of disability but of ...

He may have been bound to a wheelchair and unable to speak, but Stephen Hawking had an incredibly complicated and complex love life that involved affairs and allegations of cheating and abuse.

In the days since Stephen Hawking’s death, obituaries have described him as being “confined” or “chained” to a wheelchair, as someone who “overcame” his disability and succeeded in ...

A wheelchair used by the late British physicist Stephen Hawking has sold at auction for almost $400,000, with the money going to charity. The motorized wheelchair, which was used by Hawking after ...

LONDON (AP) — A wheelchair used by physicist Stephen Hawking has sold at auction for almost 300,000 pounds ($393,000), while a copy of his doctoral thesis fetched almost 585,000 pounds ($767,000 ...

Legendary physicist Stephen Hawking's wheelchair and thesis sold for more than $1 million combined at an online auction that ended Thursday. The motorized red and maroon leather wheelchair ...

Proceeds from its sale will go to two charities, the Stephen Hawking Foundation and the Motor Neurone Disease Association. Venning said the wheelchair became a symbol not just of disability but of ...

Some of the most prized possessions of late British physicist Stephen Hawking, including a copy of his Ph.D thesis and an early wheelchair, have sold for much more than expected at an auction by ...

Stephen Hawking, the British physicist whose body was chained to a wheelchair by the ravages of a degenerative neuromuscular disease, but whose mind soared to the boundaries of the universe and ...

He also owns a lot of ugly Christmas sweaters. Personal effects owned by famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking , including his wheelchair and doctoral thesis, have sold for a combined total ...