STEPHEN HAWKING

STEPHEN HAWKING 

    Stephen Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 in Oxford England. At an early age Hawking showed a passion for science. At the age of 21,while studying cosmology at the University of Cambridge,he was diagnosed with a rare disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Despite  

his physical disabilities he has done ground breaking work in physics and cosmology. His several books have held to make science accessible to everyone.

      Born to Frank and Isobel Hawking. He had an ordinary childhood. But by the time he was eight, he was seriously thinking about becoming a scientist. In 1959,at the age of 17,Hawking went to Oxford to study natural science and to specialise in physics. Later he took a PhD from Cambridge specialising in Theoretical physics.

   

    At the age of 21,he contracted a rare disease  named Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It was a terrible disease. There was no known cure for this. In 1965,he got married with Jane. Jane liked his intelligence,eccentric and  rather arrogant nature. Besides, he was interesting and witty. As a student in Cambridge, Hawking used to ask unexpected and penetrating questions to the most distinguished scientists. His reputation  as a 'genius', 'another Einstein ' began in Cambridge days.

     He started writing a book in 1980. Before completing that book, he had to undergo a tracheotomy. After this operation he could not make any local sound. Then he continued his work with the help of a computer program hold Equalizer. This program allowed Hawking to select words from the screen. In 1988,he published his work "A Brief History Of Time". This book contains a no of paradoxes and unique.He died on 14 March 2018.

         Reference -Quest for a theory of everything

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