Hawking too ill to attend 70th birthday event
He was due to look back on his life at the free public symposium at the University’s Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, but instead had to make do with watching events unfold on the internet.
All the tickets for the free event were snapped up months ago, which is a testament to Prof Hawking’s enduring appeal, but the university revealed he would not be attending the event soon after it began.
