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Michael Green elected to Hawking’s Cambridge post

OCT 20, 2009
Physics Today
Cambridge News : Michael Green has been elected as the 18th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics , an academic chair founded in 1663 and previously held by such luminaries as Sir Isaac Newton , Charles Babbage , and James Lighthill . Stephen Hawking retired from the post earlier this year.Hawking has been appointed to a new role as director of research in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics , and will continue to lead research efforts in cosmology and gravitation.
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