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Stephen Hawking: Life and Legacy

Stephen Hawking was a renowned British physicist and cosmologist born in 1942 in Oxford, England. He studied physics and cosmology at the University of Cambridge. In 1963, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) but continued his scientific career despite losing his mobility. Some of Hawking's major scientific achievements included developing theories about black holes, the Big Bang, and the possibility of time travel. He authored several popular science books explaining his work and was awarded numerous honors over his career. Hawking passed away in 2018 at the age of 76 in Cambridge.

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Stephen Hawking: Life and Legacy

Stephen Hawking was a renowned British physicist and cosmologist born in 1942 in Oxford, England. He studied physics and cosmology at the University of Cambridge. In 1963, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) but continued his scientific career despite losing his mobility. Some of Hawking's major scientific achievements included developing theories about black holes, the Big Bang, and the possibility of time travel. He authored several popular science books explaining his work and was awarded numerous honors over his career. Hawking passed away in 2018 at the age of 76 in Cambridge.

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STEPHEN HAWKING

This scientist was born on January 8, 1942 in Oxford.


His parents, Isobel Hawjing was a housewife and his
father Frank Hawking was a great biologist
researcher, also had two younger sisters and an
adopted brother. He studied at university college
because his father wanted to study there, studied
natural sciences and is a specialist in physics.

In 1963 he slipped and fell during a skating session


and had mobility difficulties inmediatly he was diagnosed with a degenerative
neuromuscular disorder, when he was just 22 years old.

In 1965 he married with Jane Wayline, had three children, divorced in 1990 and the scientist
decided to live with Enama Mason, a nurse who helped him every day, five years later he
married her, this marriage ended in 2007.

At the University of Cambridge he studied Cosmology. After winning the PhD in Philosophy,
he decided to dedicate himself to research. Then he entered the institute of Astronomy and
left in 1973. In that year he entered the department of applied mathematics and theoretical
physics. Finally Hawking obtained his doctorate with his thesis, entitled "Properties of
Expanding Universes", which he presented at Trinity College at 24 years of age

The achievements of this scientist left their mark on the history of science. His main
contribution was based on "the theory of everything", in the same way he elaborated the
formula of the temperature of a black hole, which emit readiation, known as Hawking
radiation, another theory was based on the imaginary time, since he postulates that the
univers has no limits as such, so the same time originated in the Big Bang.

His illness never prevented him from publishing and giving lectures to the public. Which were
based on the study of the universe and the future of humanity as a species. He always said
that humans should leave the earth to survive as a species, he always made reflections
about life in other planets and the possibility of intelligent life out of this world.

Stephen Hawking managed to obtain a total of 13 honorary titles. He was awarded the CBE
in 1982, Companion of Honor in 1989 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. He
received numerous medals and prizes, such as the Fundamental Physics Award, Copley
Medal, and the Wolf Foundation Prize. He was a member of the Royal Society and a
member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and the Pontifical
Academy of Sciences. In 1966 he won the Adams Prize for his essay Singularities and the
Geometry of Space-time.

On March 14 of this year, at 76 years old, he died in Cambridge because of his serious
disease.

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