Stephen Hawking’s office becomes part of Science Museum collection

Personalised wheelchairs, physics papers and scripts from 'The Simpsons' belonging to the famed professor have been acquired by the Science Museum and Cambridge University Library.

Hawkings' office will be preserved as part of the museum's collection. Highlights will go on display in 2022, with more items due to be digitised in an online archive.

Cambridge University will make his 10,000 page collection of papers, photographs and correspondence with world leaders and scientists across the world available to students.

A major fundraising drive will be launched to fund the "painstaking" cataloguing work, the university said.