All proceeds from the sale of items with your name, physicist plans to send to charity, and, in particular, on the fight against AIDS.

Famous physicist Stephen Hawking will become a trademark. Scientist have already submitted all the necessary documents for obtaining rights to use his name, reports Live Science.

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All proceeds from the sale of items with your name, physicist plans to send to charity, and, in particular, on the fight against AIDS.

"This is a personal matter of Professor Hawking, not the University, but I believe he made the right decision to protect his name. Now on the Internet you can find Souvenirs and underwear, which depicts a scientist", " said representative Stephen Cambridge University, where a physicist.

Stephen Hawking is an English theoretical physicist, known for his work on cosmology, but also in science popularization. Thus, the circulation of his book "a brief history of time", translated into 35 languages to more than 20 million copies.

in Addition to scientific research physicist performs as a guest of a person on various talk shows, and participates in the movies and cartoons. So, Hawking played himself in an episode of "the big Bang Theory" and voiced a character in "the simpsons" and "Futurama".

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