Comins cited in BDN editorial on Stephen Hawking
The Bangor Daily News cited Neil Comins, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Maine, in the editorial, “Stephen Hawking’s sage advice on life, love and black holes.” Hawking, a theoretical physicist, died March 14 at the age of 76. Hawking’s unexpected findings about black holes intrigued people outside the scientific community, according to Comins, who gave the first presentation of his findings during his Ph.D. studies to Hawking and his team in the 1970s. Comins, who has published several books, said he learned from Hawking’s popular book, “A Brief History of Time,” to make scientific concepts more understandable and approachable in his own writing.