Wanted: genius to help Stephen Hawking (physics skills not needed)
Wanted: a computer-literate graduate with a screwdriver who can maintain the wheelchair of the world’s most famous living physicist – without the help of an instruction manual. Academics need not apply.
Professor Stephen Hawking is looking for a technical assistant to help him maintain and operate his custom-built wheelchair and the computer-controlled voice synthesiser through which he speaks.
The successful applicant will be paid a salary of around £25,000 and can expect to spend about three months a year overseas with the Cambridge cosmologist and his small team of full-time carers, while he is touring abroad.
Although Professor Hawking is looking for a university graduate and the job is officially funded by the University of Cambridge as a research post, he makes it clear that he does not want a theoretical physics researcher.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/wanted-genius-to-help-stephen-hawking-physics-skills-not-needed-6283002.html
