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My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.
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My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics. — Stephen Hawking

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Stephen Hawking was a Physicist from United Kingdom (1942–2018).

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Stephen Hawking lived from 1942 – 2018.
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