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Professor Hawking at St Albans School in 2006

PROFESSOR Stephen Hawking, who began his lengthy education in St Albans, started a new search yesterday for young African Einsteins.

The 66-year-old physicist, who is almost completely paralysed by motor neurone disease, has devoted his career to discovering the origins of the universe but has turned his attention to creating the first post graduate centres for advanced maths and physics in Africa.

Yesterday he travelled to South Africa to help launch the £75 million project with friend and founder Neil Turok, professor of mathematical physics at Cambridge University, along with Michael Griffin, the head of NASA and Naledi Pandor, South Africa's Education minister.

The former St Albans School student says the world of science needs Africa's brilliant talents and he looks forward to meeting their young Einsteins and unlocking scientific talent.

The 15 new centres will be modelled on the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences founded by Turok in Muizenburg, near Cape Town in 2004.

Author of the best seller A Brief History of Time, Hawking last visited his old school in 2006 to give a lecture to students on the origin on time as well as answer pressing questions on all subjects, including his appearance in The Simpsons.

5:28pm Monday 12th May 2008

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