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...FOR Stephen Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA, whose 70th birthday today is being honoured by an assembly of more than 100 distinguished cosmologists from all over the world at Cambridge University. Despite having suffered from motor neurone disease since the age of 21 Hawking has established himself as one of the most innovative thinkers in his field of theoretical physics and cosmology and also as an effective communicator to the general public -- his book A Brief History of Time has sold ten million copies worldwide.