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Stephen Hawking's ashes to sit near Newton, Darwin's graves
Updated On: 21 March, 2018 12:18 PM IST | London | IANS
He was born in Oxford, England, in 1942 on the 300th anniversary of the death of astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei. Along with fellow physicist Roger Penrose
Stephen Hawking
The ashes of renowned physicist Steven Hawking will be interred in Westminster Abbey here near the graves of ground-breaking scientists Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. In a statement released by the Abbey on Tuesday, the Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster, said it was a "fitting" tribute to the British scientist who passed away on March 14 at the age of 76, CNN reported. "We believe it to be vital that science and religion work together to seek to answer the great questions of the mystery of life and of the universe," Hall said in the statement.
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