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Britain’s Professor Stephen Hawking receives the Honorary Freedom of the City of London during a March 2017 ceremony in London. Cambridge University put Hawking’s doctoral thesis online Monday, triggering such interest that it crashed the university’s website. Completed in 1966 when Hawking was 24, “Properties of Expanding Universes” explores ideas about the origins of the universe that have resonated through the scientist’s career. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, file)

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Cambridge University has put Stephen Hawking’s doctoral thesis online, triggering such interest that it crashed the university’s website.

By Associated Press October 24, 2017