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Stephen William Hawking
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8 January 1942 - 14 March 2018
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English scientist, professor of physics Stephen William Hawking was born on January 8, 1942 in Oxford, UK.
Since school, Hawking began to develop a rare disease. In the eighth grade, he noticed that he often stumbled when walking. When doctors examined Stephen, they made a rare diagnosis - amyotriphic lateral sclerosis, which is why Hawking has been paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair for many years - only his right arm moves. At a fairly mature age, Hawking cut out his trachea, and now a speech
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English scientist, professor of physics Stephen William Hawking was born on January 8, 1942 in Oxford, UK.
Since school, Hawking began to develop a rare disease. In the eighth grade, he noticed that he often stumbled when walking. When doctors examined Stephen, they made a rare diagnosis - amyotriphic lateral sclerosis, which is why Hawking has been paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair for many years - only his right arm moves. At a fairly mature age, Hawking cut out his trachea, and now a speech synthesizer on a computer speaks for him.
However, all these circumstances did not prevent Stephen Hawking from becoming a world-renowned scientist.
Since 1979, Stephen Hawking has been a lecturer in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. He wrote his dissertation with the help of his wife Jane when he was completely paralyzed.
His pen belongs to the book “A Brief History of Time”, which was published in 1988 and brought him great popularity. In it, the scientist openly told about the emergence and development of the Universe. In parallel, he published a book in which the scientific language has already described the emergence and development of the universe, for a simple reader it will seem incomprehensible and difficult.
Even under the editorship of the scientist, the books “The World in a Nutshell” were published.
"Black holes and young universes", "Big, small and human minds". All these books are devoted to the questions of the origin and development of the Universe and are based both on scientific knowledge and on the author’s own ideas about these problems. The scientist considers himself an atheist and tried to bring religious views under a mathematical formula. Stephen Hawking, despite his illness and status, is a life-loving and cheerful person. Students love it and always come out with a smile. The character of the scientist appeared in various animated series: The Simpsons, Griffins, in some series he voices himself. Stephen Hawking has a second marriage, three children and a grandson.
Stephen Hawking has many awards, twelve academic degrees, the title of Fellow of the Royal Society and the American National Academy of Sciences.