Stephen Hawking dead, claim conspiracy theorists

Certain people are convinced real Professor died and elite politicians and scientists have installed a 'puppet' to act in his place. According to Conspiracy Theorists, Professor Hawking, Director of Research at the Center for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge, died in 1985 - three years before the publication of his best-selling book A Brief History of Time. One of the world’s most celebrated scientists, Stephen Hawking’s life has been told in books, documentaries and movies. However, if conspiracy theories are to be believed, then one hardly knows anything about the award-winning physicist, who celebrated his 76th birthday on Monday. According to a story published in Mail-online, there are certain people around the world who are convinced that the real Prof Hawking's died decades ago and then in the intervening years, politicians and scientists from the elite sections of society have installed a lookalike to act in his place.