A copy of Stephen Hawking's doctorate thesis signed in a shaky hand was the highlight of an auction of the British physicist's personal items in London, which raised nearly $1.8 million (almost P96 million) The copy, one of only five originals of the thesis entitled "Properties of Expanding Universes", smashed pre-sale expectations four times over to sell for $758,888 (around P40.3 million) at the Christie's sale, which ended on Thursday. A red leather wheelchair that Hawking used from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, driving himself using a joystick, sold for 296,750 while an early edition of his bestselling book "A Brief History of Time" marked with a thumbprint, fe...
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