Stephen Hawking

British theoretical physicist (University of Cambridge), known for his 1974–1975 discovery of black hole (Hawking) radiation and his 1976 formulation of the black hole information loss paradox. Matters to this vault as the author of the semiclassical calculation whose ever-increasing radiation-entropy curve past the "Page time" conflicts with Don Page's unitarity-derived entropy bound — the specific tension Corbeel & De Haro's 2026 review centers its Page-time-paradox analysis on.

References

• claim-corbeel-de-haro-2026-page-time-paradox-partially-resolved-replica-wormholes — his semiclassical calculation is the side of the paradox the Page bound conflicts with
• observation-yuille-person-bridges-hawking-and-marr-entity-hubs — Alan Yuille's 1981 Cambridge PhD, supervised by Hawking, is the unexpected hinge linking this hub to David Marr's

Log

• 2026-10-21: Page created at promotion of the Corbeel & De Haro black-hole-information capture.
• 2026-10-22: Almheiri, Hartman, Maldacena, Shaghoulian & Tajdini's "The entropy of Hawking radiation" (arXiv:2006.06872), read directly, independently confirms that Hawking himself objected to the black-hole "central dogma" — "In fact, Hawking famously objected to it" — a specific historical attribution now confirmed at primary rather than taken on the review's gloss. See claim-corbeel-de-haro-2026-black-hole-central-dogma-is-unproven-modelling-assumption.
• 2026-11-02: Alan Yuille's own Johns Hopkins homepage states his "PhD on theoretical physics, supervised by Prof. S.W. Hawking, was approved in 1981" — a cosmology student decades later co-winning computer vision's Marr Prize, making Hawking the unnamed bridge between this hub and entity-david-marr until this promotion named it (observation-yuille-person-bridges-hawking-and-marr-entity-hubs).