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There is no god, stephen hawking writes in final book cnet. Stephen william hawking ch cbe frs frsa 8 january 1942 14 march 2018 was an english theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the centre for theoretical cosmology at the university of cambridge at the time of his death. Stephen hawking has 9 books on goodreads with 1274453 ratings. He was the lucasian professor of mathematics at the university of cambridge between.
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