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Stephen W. Hawking, the Cambridge University physicist and best-selling author who roamed the cosmos from a wheelchair, pondering the nature of gravity and the origin of the universe and becoming an emblem of human determination and curiosity, has died at his home in Cambridge, England. He was 76.

A family spokesman announced the death in a statement to several news media outlets.

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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/step...kt5R&ocid=ientp

COD not yet announced but one assumes it will be related to his debilitating ALS.