Hawking Page #2

Synopsis: Stephen Hawking (Benedict Cumberbatch) contracts a degenerative disease while a doctoral student, but goes on to achieve worldwide acclaim as a physicist and author.
Genre: Biography, Drama
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
TV-G
Year:
2004
90 min
678 Views


I put him up for the job.

And they wouldn't let me in on an interview.

So I loitered around.

And when Bob and the interview committee came out

doing their handshakes

and thank you for coming and we'll let you know, I moved in.

You gave him the job, right?

You gave Bob the job, didn't you?

There was this kind of embarrassed pause,

so I told them straight.

Bob and I are gonna walk down the corridor right here

and right out that door right there.

And if you don't want Bob to have a job that he was born to do,

then you call it before we go through that door.

- Longest walk of my life.

- Sixty two paces.

And we never looked back.

- They won't tell me what they're thinking.

- Doctors don't.

- They don't know themselves yet.

- I'm a doctor, Isobel, I know what they're like.

- You're tropical disease expert, dad.

- I know doctors!

- What Isobel?

- Nothing.

I'll arrange for you to have a private room.

No.

I'll stay on the ward like everyone else.

So, have you applied for Oxford or Cambridge?

They don't want me.

I was thinking of Westfield.

It's an all ladies college.

On the Burton model, I suppose.

And..and it's quite

Scrabble. Let's play scrabble.

Leukaemia.

He's twelve.

It was beautiful.

I came out of the woods and there it was.

A perfect piece of equipment.

The antenna.

A great big horn like a gramophone horn

lying on its side.

The size of a house.

In the middle of a field, on a hill,

20 miles out of New York City.

- Picking up the hiss.

- Pointing at the stars.

And picking up the hiss.

And at the first time I saw that horn,

you know what?

- Well, they flew right out of her.

- Who?

The pigeons.

The twenty foot horn had a couple of pigeons living inside it.

- Pigeons?

- Pigeons!

What was it for, the 20 foot horn?

Apart from pigeon nesting.

We wanted to measure noise

from the outer edges of the Milky Way.

- Arno built a cold load.

- What's that?

- Five imperial gallons of liquid helium.

- You know how much helium that is?

It's a hell of a quantity of helium.

Gives you an unbelievably accurate reference

against which you can measure the noise you receive.

Arno was very precise.

He makes these things better than anyone.

- Maybe it's the German in me.

- You're German?

First six years of my life and a big chunk

of my temperament.

Bob made a great switch.

To connect the receiver alternately to the antenna

and the cold load reference.

Were you born in Germany?

- When? The 1940's?

- No. 1930's.

Noise is heat.

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Peter Moffat

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