Stephen Hawking's voice beamed into space as his ashes are interred

Stephen Hawking's voice beamed into space as his ashes are interred

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https://www.cnet.com/news/stephen-hawkings-voice-beamed-into-space-as-his-ashes-are-interred/

The ashes of renowned physicist Stephen Hawking were interred in Scientists' Corner at London's Westminster Abbey on Friday in a memorial ceremony attended by a mixture of celebrities and members of the public.

UK astronaut Tim Peake read a poem. Lucy Hawking, the physicist's daughter, and actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who played the physicist in the 2004 movie Hawking, read biblical passages. Nobel laureate Professor Kip Thorne and Astronomer Royal Martin Rees paid tribute to Hawking's work.