​Hawking warns gifted disabled scientists could be left without financial support

World-renowned physicist and author Stephen Hawking has expressed concerns over imminent cuts in funding for talented academics with serious medical conditions that could harm their progress in research.

“I wonder whether a young ambitious academic, with my kind of severe condition now, would find the same generosity and support in much of higher education,” Hawking said at a dinner that marked his 50th year as a fellow of Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge.

“Even with the best goodwill, would the money still be there? I fear not,” the 73-year-old professor added .... http://rt.com/news