vacancy by stephen hawking: urgently looking for all-round talent

in england end of February is one of the finest jobs in the world free. stephen hawking, seriously ill British cosmologist, author ("a brief history of time") and scientists at the University of Cambridge, is looking for a personal technical assistant. is the so-called graduate assistants for all technical and organizational tasks in living scientist Hawking's responsible, who can communicate only with the help of a language and computers is tied to the wheelchair.

the world-famous hawking, on 8 January is 70 years old, has been unofficially put on his web-site advertised. Hawking suffers from a severe muscle weakness. the mid-eighties, he lost his voice. a machine that is attached to his wheelchair, reads from movements in his face and helps him to convey words, to open doors and other everyday things to overcome.

will pay for the office of the graduate assistant research budget over which the university of cambridge, but with Hawking's real scientific work, the list of requirements to do little: the "ga" is hawking wheelchair mechanic, planner for the scientist and his medical entourage, and a constantly available computer professional - because even the "smallest computer problems are for people like stephen, which depend in their everyday life of a computer represents a potential disaster." So writes Chris Burgoyne at least, graduate assistant the late nineties and then bachelor's graduate in mathematics, the daily care of critically ill physicist.

low salary for a technically gifted organization genie
Hawking likes to travel a lot and met in the past few years, among others, the queen of england, us president barack obama and pope benedict xvi .. meet at this as in all others during Hawking's about three months travel time, the wizard always there. He also acts as a spokesperson, maintains the web occurs and the physicist Hawking is preparing for lectures and talk before. Another must: have the applicants should not shy to speak in front of large crowds and to understand and explain technical equipment without a manual, and can repair.

17 assistants, the famous scientist already busy and mostly stayed only a year in services of the physics-genies. sam blackburn, former technical assistant Hawkings, however, got along with chef and good job apparently. He fills the position for over three years.

apply via the official cambridge uni are accepted but only from mid-January. However, interested parties in advance can make a web-page questionnaire to fill Hawkings. Another condition that is listed there: the applicants need a valid driver's license in Britain. is also important that the future technical assistants knowledge in mathematics, physics or a technical field of study has. imagine the free end is february, the salary should be around 25,000 pounds ( € 30.000 ).