The Nobel Prize for the indefatigable theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking is long overdue. Not for the celebrated book he wrote, Brief History of Time, nor for the sequel The Universe In A Nutshell, but for the most significant discovery he made in 1974, about the black-hole explosisons and thus linking relativity and quantum physics.
Some scientists said his discovery was arguably the most significant discovery in theoretical physics.
It is now 27 years since the discovery and the Swedish Academy of Science has not yet decided to award him the prize. Awarding it to this extraordinary mind will add to the prestige of the prize, not the other way round. Epstein Njokweni, Tzaneen