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Ashes of Stephen Hawking to be placed in Westminster Abbey
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LONDON (AP) — The ashes of celebrated physicist Stephen Hawking will be interred at London's Westminster Abbey near the grave of Isaac Newton. A spokesman for the abbey said Tuesday the ashes will be placed there later this year at a thanksgiving service.The Dean of Westminster Rev. John Hall said it is "entirely fitting" that Hawking's remains will be placed in the abbey "near those of distinguished fellow scientists." He said Newton was buried in the abbey in 1727 and Charles Darwin was buried there in 1882.