Stephen Hawking "doing well"

I came home this evening to read that Stephen Hawking is expected to make a full recovery from a respiratory infection that had landed him in hospital and raised alarm around the world from people who are familiar with his work.

"He is being treated very satisfactorily," his first wife, Jane Hawking, said. "I have been to see him at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge and he's fine. He's doing well and I don't think his condition is life-threatening."

Hawking is Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. He is as famous for his studies into the black holes of space as for being the world's most well-known sufferer from motor neurone disease. Meanwhile, his website has been receiving unprecedented visits and been reduced to a minimalist look.