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Hawking gets under Newton’s skin

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(Credit: Stewart Francis)

By Hamish Johnston

Would you get the face of your favourite physicist tattooed on your leg?

Jack Newton spent six hours getting a portrait of cosmologist Stephen Hawking emblazoned on his leg after reading the physicist’s popular tome A Brief History of Time — according to the UK paper Metro.

Newton — 23 and apparently no relation to Hawking’s distant predecessor at Cambridge — admits that he didn’t understand Hawking’s book, but respected the 66-year old physicist.

 

Posted by Hamish Johnston on Oct 14, 2008 8:49 AM |

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  • 1 Gaina Alex Oct 17, 2008 8:15 PM

    That's recollects me a young girl Olga Chaiko from Russia (Borne in (1963)) which had great passions from rock Music especially metallic one. I recollect few music festivals in Russia, when a lot of boys and girls had similar pictures on many parts of their bodies. But, if search deeper in time, I recollect also that soldiers of Soviet Army during 1950th depicted sometimes their bodies also. My love to rock music is stoping on metallic one.