Stephen Hawking's 1966 doctoral thesis made available for first time
by Maev Kennedy from on (#35SDB)
Cambridge University says Properties of Expanding Universes is already most-requested item in open access repository
Anyone in the world can now download and read the doctoral thesis of a 24-year-old Cambridge postgraduate student, written in 1966; how many will fully understand Properties of Expanding Universes is another matter.
Stephen Hawking hopes that giving free access to his early work will inspire others, not just to think and learn but to share research. He said: "By making my PhD thesis open access, I hope to inspire people around the world to look up at the stars and not down at their feet; to wonder about our place in the universe and to try and make sense of the cosmos.