Celebrities, Scientists, And Public Figures Are Tweeting About Their Love For Stephen Hawking

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Richard Branson is an entrepreneur, an investor, and a philanthropist. In March 2000, Branson was knighted at Buckingham Palace for “services to entrepreneurship.” In 2004, he founded Virgin Galactic, a spaceflight company that plans to provide spaceflights to amateur space tourists.

The final line of Hawking’s biography on his official website reads, “He still hopes to make it into space one day.” Although Hawking never left earth’s atmosphere, maybe someday his children will. Read ahead for a picture of Stephen Hawking memorialized as a Simpsons character.