Word: lucasian
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...plenty of intimidating topics in Nutshell, including space-time geometry, quantum mechanics and the ominously titled M-theory. But he does it in a much more accessible way this time, using plenty of comprehensible analogies and no small amount of humor, often self-deprecating. Example: "Newton occupied the Lucasian chair at Cambridge that I now hold, though it wasn't electrically operated in his time...
...Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge University then launched into an hour-long lecture, touching on the nature of time, "p-dimensional superstrings," and the search for a unified "theory of everything...
Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, a chair once held by Sir Isaac Newton. His 1988 book A Brief History of Time has been a bestseller explaining the cutting edge of astrophysics to those outside the field. Hawking is a fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences...
...invented the rest and splashed it on their websites. Every magazine but the New England Journal of Medicine has already put the movie on its cover. At midnight on May 3, kids will drag their parents, or vice versa, to Toys "R" Us and fill their shopping carts with Lucasian action figures. Want-see? Just try keeping them away...
...answer is typical Hawking -- droll, irreverent and totally honest. He needs nursing care around the clock, and even the distinguished Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at Cambridge, a seat once held by Newton, doesn't pay enough to cover it. A victim of Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS), Hawking can move only some facial muscles and one finger on his left hand, which he uses to pick out words on a computer touch-screen attached to his motorized wheelchair. He can search through the computer's dictionary by selecting the first letter or two of a word...