Remembering Stephen Hawking with Don N. Page

Don N. Page is a distinguished university professor in the U of A’s Department of Physics. When Page was a PhD student at Caltech in 1974, he collaborated with the late Stephen Hawking while researching black hole radiation emission. Hawking co-supervised Page’s doctoral dissertation, and after completing his PhD in 1976, Page became Hawking’s research assistant at Cambridge. Even after Page embarked on his own career at Penn State and later at the U of A, he and Hawking remained friends and colleagues. In our interview, Page discusses Hawking’s legacy as a scientist, thinker, and mentor, and shares stories of the pair’s discoveries, disagreements, and friendship.

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Such a great example of friendship and mutual generosity. Working is science can be a tense environment, and Hawking surely had his tense moments. But he also befriended and helped many people, and of course was an example to all.

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God is impossible, but infinite unproven universes and vacuums are possible.