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Stephen William Hawking

•Theoretical Physicist•Cosmologist

•Author

Childhood

•Born January 8, 1942 Oxford, England, Uk •Eldest child of 4, 2 sisters 1 brother•Parents attended Oxford University•Lived in Cambridge, England•Not an exceptional student

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Education

• Attended St. Albans High School.• 1959 won scholarship to attended Oxford University

• Graduated in 1962 with B.A. from Oxford• Studied under Fred Hoyle at Trinity Hall, Cambridge• Received PhD in cosmology in 1966

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Marriage, Family, Diagnosis

• 1963 Diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease

• 1965 married Jane Wilde• 1967 son Robert Hawking born• 1970 daughter Lucy Hawking born• 1979 son Timothy Hawking born

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Best known For

•Hawking Radiation

•Linking Relativity with Quantum mechanics which contributed to the Grand Unified Theory

•Book “The theory of everything”

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Contribution TO SCIENCE

• singularities in Gravitational Collapse

• Black hole Mechanics• Theoretical predictions about black holes

• Hawking Radiation• Wave function of the universe

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Awards & HONORS

• 1966Adams Prize• 1975Eddington Medal• 1976Hughes Medal of the Royal Society• 1978Albert Einstein Award• 1979Albert Einstein Medal• 1981Franklin Medal• 1982Order of the British Empire (Commander)• 1985Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society• 1986Member of the Pontifical Academy of Science• 1987Dirac Medal of the Institute of Physics

Awards & Honors

• 1988Wolf Prize in Physics• 1989Prince of Asturias Awards in Concord• 1999Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American

Physical Society• 2003Michelson Morley Award of Case Western Reserve

University• 2006Copley Medal of the Royal Society• 2008Fonseca Price of the University of Santiago De

Compostela• 2009Presidential Medal of Freedom

(highest civilian honor in the United States)

• 2012 Robert A Heinlein Memorial Award

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