Composer Hans Zimmer, physicist Jim Al-Khalili and science documentary Particle Fever have been announced as the inaugural winners of the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication.
“In this special inaugural year of the awards, I have been invited to personally select the awardees,” said Hawking.
Each of the award winners will receive a medal bearing a depiction of the cosmonaut Alexei Leonov undertaking the first spacewalk in 1965.
On the other side of the medal is a portrait of Hawking created by Leonov himself.