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Stephen Hawking ashes to be buried next to Newton and Darwin

Megha Jain

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The ashes of the famous cosmologist and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, who died at 76, will be soon buried next to the prominent scientists like Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin at Westminister Abbey in London. Hawking died peacefully at his home in Cambridge on March 14. Other famous scientists buried in the Abbey include atomic physicists Ernest Rutherford in 1937 and Joseph John Thomson in 1940.