LONDON, June 15 (Reuters) - The voice of Stephen Hawking will be beamed into space in a message of peace and hope on Friday, his daughter said, as the British physicist is laid to rest during a service at Westminster Abbey.
The worlds most recognizable scientist died in March aged 76 after a lifetime spent probing the origins of the universe, the mysteries of black holes and the nature of time itself.
His ashes will be interred between major British scientific figures Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin at Westminster Abbey, a location made famous worldwide for generations of royal coronations, weddings and funerals.
Today at noon we're holding A Service of Thanksgiving for Professor #StephenHawking. At the end of the service, Professor Hawking's ashes will be buried in Scientists Corner, positioned between Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. pic.twitter.com/wK8TCbRP4j
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This is the memorial stone which will be placed on top of #StephenHawking's grave. Incised in the stone is Hawkings most famous equation describing the entropy of a black hole. pic.twitter.com/ClBhsXucVm
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Around 1,000 members of the public, selected by a ballot, will join Hawkings family for the service. The physicists voice will also be sent into space by the European Space Agency.
The broadcast will be beamed towards the nearest black hole, 1A 0620-00, which lives in a binary system with a fairly ordinary orange dwarf star, his daughter Lucy Hawking was quoted as saying by the BBC.
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It is a message of peace and hope, about unity and the need for us to live together in harmony on this planet.
Hawking will be laid to rest between Newton, who formulated the law of universal gravitation and laid the foundations of modern mathematics and Darwin, whose theory of evolution was one of the most far-reaching scientific breakthroughs of all time.
Internment inside Westminster Abbey is a rarely bestowed honor. The most recent burials of scientists there were those of Ernest Rutherford, a pioneer of nuclear physics, in 1937, and of Joseph John Thomson, who discovered electrons, in 1940.
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