Hawking was an inspiring figure for many

'The Wednesday deceased British physicist Stephen Hawking was a very remarkable person.

'He had very good ideas. His greatest discovery, I think, he did when he was a little younger. He discovered that particles come out of black holes. There he found out by calculating it ', says' t Hooft. The emeritus professor says he always admired Hawking, who suffered from the neurological disease ALS, because he showed that you do not have to give up if you have such a serious condition. 'Respect can still be enforced. '