Cambridge pays tribute to Hawking

Students were inspired by physicist's tenacity, spirit

The death of Stephen Hawking reverberated around the world but it was particularly resonant at a small college in Cambridge that the physicist described as a "constant thread running through my life".

The flag at Gonville and Caius College was lowered to half-staff in honor of the man who first became a fellow of the college in 1965, and a book of condolences was opened in the porter's lodge.