WhenStephen Hawkingdied in March 2018 , he leave behind 160 loge of personal letters , scientific papers , and other write material from his illustrious life .
The collection includes , for example , scripts fromThe Simpsonsand more TV shows that Hawking client - starred on ; and an extremely short story about pirate that a 6 - year - old Hawking wrote for his father : “ Once [ upon ] a fourth dimension some pirates were loading some hoarded wealth onto a ship , ” he wrote , sign it with a line of X ’s and O ’s .
There ’s also a note that play along an of import composition on black holes that pitch post to the science journalNaturein 1974 . “ As rumor about my body of work have commence to disseminate , I feel that it is necessary to publish something as soon as possible , ” Hawking wrote . “ If you find that the newspaper is too prospicient for Nature I would be grateful if you would return it instantly so that I can submit it elsewhere . ” ( Naturewiselypublishedthe paper . )
Last month , it wasannouncedthat the University of Cambridge — where Hawking get his PhD andworkedfor decades — would domiciliate the archive in its library . Now , as BBC Newsreports , Cambridge is looking for an archivist to “ arrange , name , audit the physical condition , rehouse , and review ” all 10,000 or so pages . Their principal project is to digitize every document so researchers around the world can access them online .
Applicants should have archiving experience ; and since they ’ll be function out of Cambridge University ’s library , they also take to be provide to live and ferment in the UK . The gig is set to last two years , and it ’ll give somewhere between £ 30,942 and £ 40,322 ( about $ 43,000 to $ 56,000 ) . If you ’re an greedy archivist who ’d like to have a hand in preservingHawking’slegacy , you could apply onlinehere .
[ h / tBBC News ]
