Date Of Birth
8/01/1942
Place Of Birth
Oxford
Date Of Death
14/03/2018
Place Of Birth
Cambridge
Age
76
Cause Of Death
Lou Gehrig's Disease
Wife
Jane Hawking 1965 - 1995
Children
Lucy Hawking, Robert Hawking, Timothy Hawking
Grandchildren
William Smith
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Stephen Hawking was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who, at the time of his death, was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge.
Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford, into a family of physicians. In October 1959, at the age of 17, he started university at Oxford college, where he received a first-class BA degree in physics.
In March 1966, Stephen Hawking obtained his PhD degree in applied mathematics and theoretical physics, specialising in general relativity and cosmology. In 1963, Hawking was diagnosed with an early-onset slow-progressing form of motor- neurone disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – ALS, for short) that gradually, over the decades, paralysed him and caused him to have vocal chord surgery which is why he couldn't speak and had to communicate through a specialised computer system.
When Hawking was diagnosed with motor-neurone disease, he was given 1 year to live which was the average life span for someone living the disease but Stephen Hawking astonished everyone as he lived more than 50 years with the disease.
Stephen Hawking worked on the physics of black holes. He proposed that black holes would emit subatomic particles until they eventually exploded. He also wrote best-selling books, the most famous of which was A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988).
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