Way is Stephen Hawking not sir Stephen Hawking by now?

I thought he was knight of the british empire.

I wiki-ed him. I was wrong. He is CBE, commander of the british empire. That's a rank below knight, which would earn him the honorific sir.

I think he probably deserves the promotion.

--I never read before that he turned it down. I guess that explains it.

He was offered it, but turned it down. You can read about it here.

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/78853,stephen-hawkin...

because the queen knows enough cosmology that she's embarrassed that SH lost the famous information paradox bet?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorne-Hawking-Preski...

edit: the poster above me got it right apparently - i was joking (if you couldn't tell)... although it is true that SH is not always right, as brilliant as he is. nor was Einstein always right, as brilliant as he was.

cheers

getting your title lawfully changed is such pain in the ****