Hawking joins Perimeter Institute

The New York Times : Stephen Hawking will become the first distinguished research chair at Canada’s leading scientific trust, the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, the institute announced Thursday. Professor Hawking will make regular visits to the institute, which focuses on quantum theory and gravity, beginning next summer. He will continue to hold his position as a professor of mathematics at Cambridge University. The Perimeter Institute was founded, and substantially financed, in 1999 by Mike Lazaridis, the developer of the BlackBerry and co-chief executive of its maker, Research In Motion.