We thought it was important, especially in our work to keep you informed about the world of innovation, to note the passing of passing of Stephen Hawking, quite possibly the greatest scientist of our time. CNN was among the many news outlets noting the achievements of Hawking, a British theoretical physicist who somehow managed to live to 76 despite fighting ALS since he was 21, when he was given two years to live. He probed the mysteries of the universe and helped rewrite our understanding of space and time. His landmark book, “A Brief History of Time,” sold more than 10 million copies. “A star just went out in the cosmos,” Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist, wrote on Twitter. “We have lost an amazing human being.”