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Stephen Hawking, arguably the world's greatest living scientist, is still expanding his own horizons as well as those of the universe - the 73-year-old is going to be at Glastonbury this year, giving a speech on the Kidz Field.
The Beckham family fanboyed and fangirled all over the professor when they met him last month, and they're far from the only ones - the author of A Brief History of Time is an all-round national treasure. In honour of his continued general amazingness we've rounded up some of Hawking's greatest achievements, in science and popular culture, in layperson's terms:
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