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FILE – Stephen Hawking…LONDON – (FILE) Professor Stephen Hawking delivers his speech at the release of the ‘Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ on January 17, 2007 in London, England. According to Cambridge University, April 20, 2009 the 67-year-old physicist is “very ill” in hospital. (Photo by Bruno Vincent/Getty Images)