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The family of British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking donated his respirator to the Cambridge hospital, which treated him to help combat the Covid-19 pandemic. This Wednesday (22), the scientist’s daughter, Lucy Hawking, formalized the donation to the United Kingdom’s national public health service (NHS).
The team was taken to the Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, the same institution that cared for the researcher until his death, at the age of 76, on March 14, 2018. Hawking had, from his youth, a degenerative disease.
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After the physicist’s death, the family returned all the respiratory equipment that the public health system had loaned to the hospital. Lucy recalled in a statement that the NHS provided her father with “brilliant, dedicated and compassionate” medical support
But Hawking also bought some machines, her daughter explained. “We are now turning it over to the NHS in hopes that it will help in the fight against Covid-19.” She also said that if she were alive, her father would be at the forefront of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
The donation comes at a time when the UK, which has been badly hit by the coronavirus pandemic with more than 17,000 deaths recorded in hospitals alone, suffers from a lack of necessary medical equipment to deal with the health crisis.
According to British Health Minister Matt Hancock, the country had between 9,000 and 10,000 respirators on the NHS in early April and another 2,000 in private clinics. Hancock announced the arrival of 1,500 additional machines in the coming weeks.
Stephen Hawking: overcoming the life of one of the world’s best-known scientists
Hawking has become one of the best known scientists in the world by addressing topics such as the nature of gravity and the origin of the universe. It was also an example of determination to resist amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative disease, for many years.
Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, exactly 300 years after Galileo’s death, and died on the same date as the birth of Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879).
In the late 1960s, Stephen Hawking gained fame with his theory of the singularity of space-time, applying the logic of black holes to the entire universe. He would detail the subject to the general public in the book “A brief history of time”, a bestseller published in 1988.
In 2014, his life story was told in the movie “The Theory of Everything”, which won the Oscar for best actor for Eddie Redmayner, who played the physicist in the cinema.
