Stephen Hawking’s wheelchair sells for £300,000 at auction

Christie's sale also includes items belonging to Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein

Stephen Hawking's wheelchair and a set of his medals and awards have been sold for a combined total of nearly 600,000, while a copy of his PhD thesis raised almost that amount on its own, at an auction of items belonging to him and other celebrated scientists.

The sale, run online by Christie's and including 52 lots, raised more than 1.8m on Thursday. It included items belonging to Hawking, as well as others linked to Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein.