Fog Blog Scientific Log:

THE GENIUS OF SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOUR HAS DIED . PROFESSOR STEPHEN HAWKING , FINALLY SUCCUMBED TO THE DISEASE THAT SLOWLY OVER 5 DECADES TOOK HIS LIFE.....AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS OR ALS! HE WAS 76!......ever a human being seemed capable of living forever, that human was Stephen Hawking. In 1963, when Hawking was twenty-one, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the degenerative neurological disorder, and given three years to live; he died this past Wednesday, at the age of seventy-six. For five decades, he used an electric wheelchair and, as the years progressed, had an ever-shrinking range of motion. Toward the end, only the twitch of a cheek muscle, processed through a computer interface with a digital voice, provided an outlet for the churning, often playful mind inside. To the eye alone, he was a rumpled suit on wheels, fathoming the unfathomable.He will be missed by so many, science buffs, friends and family , fans and Sheldon of Big Ban Theory!