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CAMBRIDGE, England -- British physicist Stephen Hawking is expected to fully recover from a chest infection, doctors at Cambridge University said April 21.
The 67-year-old scientist, who is wheelchair-bound and speaks with a voice synthesizer, was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge for tests April 20 after an infection worsened.
A university spokesman said Hawking remained hospitalized but was "in a comfortable condition and is expected to make a full recovery," The Times of London reported.
Hawking, best-known as the author of "A Brief History of Time," is acknowledged one of the world's foremost experts on the origins of the universe, black holes and gravity. He is also well-known for his use of a voice synthesizer, made necessary by his affliction with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a motor neurone disease.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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