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Fact Sheet

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Story Ideas:

• Why is this the first entire building Stephen Hawking has lent his name to?
  
• What makes Stephen Hawking one of the most famous scientists alive?
  
• Built and designed from the bottom up with physicists in mind, what design features help facilitate scientific research and discovery?
  
• Why are the scientists at Perimeter akin to modern explorers and how could their pursuit of fundamental knowledge change our future?
  
• How do the chalked equations on the many blackboards throughout PI relate to everyday life?
  
• Why is today’s theoretical physics tomorrow’s technology?
  
• The opening of the Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute will also see growth in Perimeter Scholars International (PSI), a ten-month intensive physics masters program. What’s in store for this year's class of 39 budding young physicists from 21 countries as they meet scientific experts over the next year?
  
• From theory to experiment and beyond - how might ideas at Perimeter move from blackboards to the lab, and eventually into daily life?
  

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• About the Expansion
  

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