He was elected by senior university staff to one of the world's most famous academic titles after Professor Stephen Hawking decided to shed the title. Prof Green is a professor of theoretical physics ...

The history of scientific discovery has an alternate history of ifs, many quite quotidian: if the apple had not fallen on Newton's head, if Archimedes hadn't overfilled his bath … And if Michael Green ...

CAMBRIDGE Famed cosmologist Stephen Hawking will retire from his prestigious post at Cambridge University next year, but intends to continue his exploration of time and space. Hawking, 66, is Lucasian ...

On July 1 physicist Michael Cates will be the 19th person to sit in what is perhaps the most prestigious “chair” in science when he assumes the post of the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at ...

Without fanfare or ceremony, the most celebrated scientist in the country, Stephen Hawking, quietly stepped down this week from the most prestigious post in British physics. Hawking's successor as ...

Physicist Stephen Hawking stepped down on Wednesday as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University after 30 years in the post. The roughly 350-year-old position has been held by such ...

LONDON -- British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking will next year retire as Cambridge University's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a position once held by Isaac Newton, the university said on ...

THE Lucasian professorship of mathematics at the University of Cambridge, from which Sir Joseph Larmor retires at the end of September after holding it with distinction since 1903, is the third oldest ...

For more than 300 years, Cambridge University's Lucasian professors have promoted the mathematical elaboration of nature's laws. The founder of the chair, Henry Lucas, who was awarded an honorary MA ...

While Lucasian Professor, Newton developed his most important contributions to science, in particular the masterpieces Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687) and Opticks (1704). At the ...

"This is an exciting time in cosmology with new observational results coming in thick and fast and large-scale terrestrial and satellite experiments under way," Hawking said in a statement. "I want to ...