London, Oct 29 (PTI) Renowned British physicist StephenHawking's PhD thesis has been accessed more than two milliontimes from across the world within days of it being madeavailable to the public, according to media reports.
Hawking's 1966 work - which was released on CambridgeUniversity's website last week - proved to be so popular thatit crashed the publications section of the site on the firstday.
More than 500,000 people have also tried to download thepaper, titled "Properties of expanding universes".
"This is far and away the most accessed item we have inthe university's Apollo repository," said Arthur Smith, fromCambridge University in the UKHawking wrote the 134-page document as a 24-year-oldpostgraduate student while studying at Cambridge.
The astrophysicist, who has been at Cambridge Universitysince 1962, is the author of 'A Brief History of Time' - oneof the most influential scientific works.
Since it went live last week, the PhD thesis has beenaccessed about two million times by about 800,000 uniquebrowsers "from every corner of the globe", the 'BBC News'reported.
The next most read PhD thesis has received just 7,960downloads in 2017.
Previously, to read Hawking's PhD in full, people had topay 65 pounds to the university library to scan a copy orphysically go to the library to read it. PTI MHNMHN.
This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.