Stephen Hawking

Stephen William Hawking is a British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who has provided the voice of his own head in a jar on Futurama. Hawking is most noted for his work in the fields of and, and provided the theoretical argument for the existence of  emitted by. He was the at the  from 1979 until 2009, and is a noted advocate of  and the existence of. He has appeared as himself in many television shows including Star Trek: , , and has made multiple appearances on The Simpsons.

According to David X. Cohen in a June 2011 interview, Stephen Hawking was one of his favourite voice actors to have participated on Futurama, and he was happy to have had a brief chat with him about superstition and numbers.

His book  is parodied in Bender's Big Score.