Stephen Hawking Released from Italian Hospital After Brief Stay

Dan Kitwood/Getty Images(ROME) — Stephen Hawking has been released from a hospital in Rome after a two-day stay.

Gemelli Hospital tells ABC News that the English theoretical physicist was discharged on Saturday after feeling unwell on Thursday evening.

Hawking was speaking at a Vatican conference on the origins of the universe. He suffers from a rare form of ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

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