Stephen Hawking His Life and Vestige

Stephen Hawking

Stephen William Hawking (born 8 January 1942) is an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity.

He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts , a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciencesi

In 2009 was awarded the Presidential Medal of freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States.

Hawking was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years, taking up the post in 1979 and retiring on 1 October 2009

He is also a Fellow of Gonville and Cais College Cambridge and a Distinguished Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario

Early life and education Stephen Hawking was born on 8 January

1942 to Dr. Frank Hawking, a research biologist, and Isobel Hawking. He had two younger sisters, Philippa and Mary, and an adopted brother, Edward

Though Hawking's parents were living in North London, they moved to Oxford while his mother was pregnant with Stephen, desiring a safer location for the birth of their first child

Career in theoretical physics Almost as soon as he arrived at

Cambridge, he started developing symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis a type of motor neurone disease which would cost him almost all neuromuscular control

Illness

Stephen Hawking is severely disabled by a motor neurone disease known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Hawking's illness is markedly different from typical ALS in that his form of ALS would make for the most protracted case ever documented.

Awards and honours

1975 Eddington Medal 1976 Hughes Medal of the Royal Society 1979 Albert Einstein Medal 1981 Franklin Medal

1982 Order of the British Empire (Commander)

1985 Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society

1986 Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences

1988 Wolf Prize in Physics 1989 Prince of Asturias Awards in Concord

1989 Companion of Honour 1999 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the

American Physical Society[46] 2003 Michelson Morley Award of

Case Western Reserve University

2006 Copley Medal of the Royal Society[47] 2008 Fonseca Price of the

University of Santiago de Compostela 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the

highest civilian honour in the United States

Films and series

A Brief History of Time (1991) Stephen Hawking's Universe (1997) Horizon: The Hawking Paradox (2005

Masters of Science Fiction (2007) Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe

(2008) Into The Universe with Stephen

Hawking(2010)