Stephen Hawking PhD Thesis online, causes site-crashing stampede

[lpetrich]

Stephen Hawking PhD readers crash Cambridge University website - BBC News

Prof Hawking's 1966 thesis "Properties of expanding universes" was made freely available for the first time on the publications section of university's website at 00:01 BST.

More than 60,000 have so far accessed his work as a 24-year-old postgraduate.

Prof Hawking said by making it available he hoped to "inspire people".

He added: "Anyone, anywhere in the world should have free, unhindered access to not just my research, but to the research of every great and enquiring mind across the spectrum of human understanding.

"It's wonderful to hear how many people have already shown an interest in downloading my thesis - hopefully they won't be disappointed now that they finally have access to it!"

Step inside the mind of the young Stephen Hawking as his PhD thesis goes online for first time | University of Cambridge -- you can get an online copy from that page. Warning: it's a scanned book, so it will be rather bulky.