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Stephen William Hawking was born
January 8, 1942 in Oxford, England. He was a
theoretical physicist and became professor of
gravitational physics at Cambridge in 1977 and was
later (in 1979) appointed to Cambridge's Lucasian
professorship of mathematics.
Hawking has an eclectic educational
resume where he had studied at Oxford University where
he originally studied physics, and the University of
Cambridge where he earned his PhD in cosmology, and
taught at California Institute of Technology, as well
as Gonville & Caius College as a visiting
professor.
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| Much of Stephen Hawking's work was
centered on black holes, the expanding universe, and
the Big Bang. However he still found time to
commit some time to more frivolous pursuits such as
being a guest on many popular television shows such as
The Simpsons and Star Trek: The Next Generation and
other similar appearances. Stephen Hawking was also diagnosed with ALS when he was 21 years old while he was studying at Cambridge. At the time his doctors predicted that he had no more than 2 years left to live. Obviously he had many more years remaining, finally passing 55 years later at the age of 76 on March 14, 2018. |
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