霍金将入葬威斯敏斯特教堂 与牛顿和达尔文为伴
The funeral of renowned physicist Professor Stephen Hawking will take place at Great St Mary's, the University Church in Cambridge, on March 31, his family announced last Tuesday. The Great St Mary's church is just a stone's throw from Gonville And Caius, the Cambridge College where Professor Hawking dedicated himself to discovering the secrets of the universe for over 50 years. After the funeral, family, friends and colleagues will be invited to a private service nearby at Trinity College. Professor Hawking's ashes will be interred near the remains of fellow science greats Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin in Westminster Abbey later this year. The dean of Westminster, the Very Rev Dr John Hall, said: "It is entirely fitting that the remains of Prof Stephen Hawking are to be buried in the abbey, near those of distinguished fellow scientists." Other famous scientists are buried or memorialised nearby, the most recent burials being those of atomic physicists Ernest Rutherford in 1937 and Joseph John Thomson in 1940. "We believe it to be vital that science and religion work together to seek to answer the great questions of the mystery of life and of the universe," said Dr John Hall. |