STEPHEN HAWKING
Name: Stephen William Hawking
Born: 8 January 1942 Oxford, England
Stephen William Hawking (born 8 January 1942) is a British
theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the
University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity,
especially in the context of black holes, and his popular works in which he
discusses his own theories and cosmology in general. These include the runaway
popular science bestseller A Brief History of Time, which stayed on the British
Sunday Times bestseller list for a record-breaking 237 weeks.
His key scientific works to date have included providing, with Roger Penrose,
theorems regarding singularities in the framework of general relativity, and the
theoretical prediction that black holes should emit radiation, which is today
known as Hawking radiation, or sometimes as Bekenstein-Hawking radiation His
scientific career spans more than 40 years and his books and public appearances
have made him an academic celebrity and world-renowned theoretical physicist. He
is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Hawking is disabled by
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known in the United States as Lou
Gehrig's Disease. The illness has progressed over the years and he is now almost
completely paralysed.
Name: Stephen William Hawking
Born: 8 January 1942 Oxford, England
Stephen William Hawking (born 8 January 1942) is a British
theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the
University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity,
especially in the context of black holes, and his popular works in which he
discusses his own theories and cosmology in general. These include the runaway
popular science bestseller A Brief History of Time, which stayed on the British
Sunday Times bestseller list for a record-breaking 237 weeks.
His key scientific works to date have included providing, with Roger Penrose,
theorems regarding singularities in the framework of general relativity, and the
theoretical prediction that black holes should emit radiation, which is today
known as Hawking radiation, or sometimes as Bekenstein-Hawking radiation His
scientific career spans more than 40 years and his books and public appearances
have made him an academic celebrity and world-renowned theoretical physicist. He
is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Hawking is disabled by
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known in the United States as Lou
Gehrig's Disease. The illness has progressed over the years and he is now almost
completely paralysed.