 Starmus VI: Brian May awarded Stephen Hawking Medal in Yerevan September 6, 2022 - 14:36 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Legendary musician Brian May, who achieved fame as lead guitarist of the rock band Queen, was awarded the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication during the Starmus VI festival on Monday, September 5. May flew to Armenia for the first time ever and wrote on Instagram: “A new adventure! To Armenia! For the very first time for me …. How amazing!! Bri.” Starmus VI is a global festival of science communication and art that brings together the most brilliant minds on the planet and this year takes place in Yerevan, Armenia. A co-founder of the festival, May was awarded the Stephen Hawking Medal for his great contribution to popularizing science. “Just in case you were wondering what a Stephen Hawking medal looks likes, this is it. And this is my one which was a wonderful surprise to me…feeling very, very grateful and thankful,” May said in a video. The Queen legend also posted a clip of himself receiving the award during the ceremony. In the video, he touchingly paid tribute to Freddie Mercury on what would have been the Queen singer's 76th birthday saying: “Before I go on, I couldn’t really fulfil this evening without saying, Happy Birthday Freddie! It’s rather nice that on his birthday I get a present!”   Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty  Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty.Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza.Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations.Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |
