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Professor Stephen Hawking's funeral to take place today

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01:08 31 Mar 2018


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Stars will be paying tribute to the world's most famous theoretical physicist today at Stephen Hawking's funeral.

Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Brian Cox and creator of the internet Tim Berners-Lee are just some of the recognisable faces expected to attend.

Redmayne famously won an Oscar for portraying Hawking in the film The Theory of Everything and will give a reading at the service today.

Professor Hawking, who had motor neurone disease, died on 14 March, aged 76, at his home in the Cambridge.

The funeral is to take place in the city at 2pm today and his ashes will be interred next to the grave of Sir Isaac Newton at Westminster Abbey in June.

Cover photo via: bbc.com


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