AP Television Cambridge, UK - 21 April, 2009 1. Wide exterior of Addenbrooke Hospital, where Physicist Stephen Hawking is hospitalised 2. Close-up of hospital sign 3. Various exteriors of hospital POOL FILE: Washington, DC, USA - 7 March, 1998 4. Side view of Hawking giving lecture in East Room of White House 5. Close-up of Hawking 6. Wide of Hawking on stage with former US President Bill Clinton 7. Wide of Hawking on stage next to screen showing graphs AP Television FILE: Cape Canaveral, USA - 27 April, 2007 8. Wide of plane in sky 9. Hawking floating at zero gravity AP Television Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK - 21 April, 2009 10. Set up of head of the Royal Astronomical Society and a professor of astronomy at Cambridge University, Andrew Fabian 11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Andrew Fabian, Head of the Royal Astronomical Society and Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge University: "He is amazingly resilient. He goes around the world, he does more travelling than most of us, he does have an entourage that goes with him to support him, but he just seems unstoppable. It's truly amazing." AP Television Cambridge, UK - 21 April, 2009 12. Wide of Centre for Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge University 13. Mid of students studying 14. Close of notepad 15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jonathan Middleton, graduate student at Cambridge University, Vox Pop: "I mean he's had health worries over the years, I guess, that we've heard of, but each one is a bit more concerning." 16. Wide of building on campus STORYLINE: Physicist Stephen Hawking was hospitalised overnight for a chest infection but his family "is looking forward" to a full recovery, Cambridge University said on Tuesday. Hawking "was being kept in observation" at Addenbrooke's hospital after being admitted on Monday. "He is comfortable and his family is looking forward to him making a full recovery," the university said in a statement. The statement did not indicate Hawking's condition and the hospital declined to comment. Hawking, 67, gained renown for his work on black holes and has remained active despite being diagnosed at age 21 with ALS, (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), an incurable degenerative disorder also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. "He is amazingly resilient," said Andrew Fabian, the head of the Royal Astronomical Society and a professor of astronomy at Cambridge. Hawking has been almost entirely paralyzed for years and communicates through an electronic voice synthesiser activated by his fingers. Hawking has searched for a major goal of physics, a "unified theory", to solve contradictions between Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which explains the laws of gravity that control the motion of large objects like planets, and the Theory of Quantum Mechanics, which deals with subatomic particles. "A complete, consistent unified theory is only the first step: our goal is a complete understanding of the events around us, and of our own existence," he wrote in "A Brief History of Time," his best-selling book published in 1988. In the sequel "The Universe in a Nutshell," published in 2001, Hawking looked into concepts such as supergravity and the possibility of a universe with 11 dimensions. The chest infection, which Hawking has been fighting for several weeks, had caused him to cancel an appearance at Arizona State University on April 6. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/d4b44e9db74801be8b7497c95761882d Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

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