Stephen Hawking and Emily Balch

Posted by Tel Asiado Jan 9, 2008

Featuring two great thinkers born 8th January:

• Emily Green Balch (January 8, 1867 - January 9, 1961).

Emily Balch was an American political scientist and sciologist, who shared the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize, a leader of women's movement for peace.

Balch brief profile: www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAWbalch.htm

• Stephen W. Hawking (b. January 8, 1942)

Stephen Hawking, 66, is a British theoretical physicist and mathematician famous for his theory of exploding black holes, drawing on relativity theory and quantum mechanics. His works include the popular science blockbuster A Brief History of Time.

More Hawking information: www.hawking.org.uk/

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