Thomas Hertog
Thomas Hertog is an internationally renowned cosmologist who was for many years a close collaborator of the late Stephen Hawking. He received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge and is currently professor of theoretical physics at the University of Leuven, where he studies the quantum nature of the big bang. He is the author of On the Origin of Time.
Though he renounced philosophy, Stephen Hawking’s final theory of the universe redraws the basic foundations of cosmology.