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571: Shedding Light on the Nature of Dark Matter and the Mysteries of Our Universe - Dr. Katie Mack

People Behind the Science Podcast Stories from Scientists about Science, Life, Research, and Science Careers

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How I Met Stephen Hawking

The first time I met Stephen Hawking was when I was probably like 15 or so. And my friend Garov went up to him and said, Hey, my friend would like to talk to you. So that was a cool experience that I had. But then I later worked at Cambridge for a while,. And I ended up interacting with him a little bit more often at Cambridge. He came to a talk I gave once when I was a grad student visitor there. When he was a postdoctoral researcher, I was often kind of in the same spaces as him. We didn't ever work together or anything. But I encountered him a lot during my professional career.

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