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It even made it into the Guinness Book of Records after it stayed on the Sunday Times bestsellers list for an unprecedented 237 ALL ABOUT STEPHEN HAWKING weeks. • The book was also the subject of the Oscar-winning film ‘The Theory of Everything’ in 2014. • Besides this, Hawking wrote many books and won a string of awards throughout an illustrious career. • He was known as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Albert Einstein. Medical Marvel Renowned physicist and modern cosmology patron, Stephen Hawking, passed away on March 14, 2018 at his home in Cambridge. He was 76. • While studying at Oxford, the Hawking became increasingly clumsy, falling down the stairs and having trouble rowing. The death was confirmed by the Professor’s children Lucy, Robert and Tim who said in a statement, “We are deeply saddened that our beloved • His speech started to slur and he was diagnosed with amyotrophic father passed away today. He was a great scientist and an extraordinary lateral sclerosis (ALS) - a form of motor neurone disease at the age of 21, man whose work and legacy will live on for many years. in 1963. About Stephen Hawking • He used to communicate using a single cheek muscle attached to a speech-generating device. Join DailyGkZone Telegram Channel • The great physicist was born on January 8, 1942 in Oxford, where his • Though the doctors gave him a life expectancy of just two years, he parents had decamped from north London for him to be born away from managed to live with the condition for more than 50 years - no less than a the worst of the wartime bombing raids. medical marvel! • When he was 8, the family moved to St Albans where he attended school before going to Oxford University. Popular Books By Stephen Hawkings • Despite being diagnosed with the life-threatening ALS disease in 1963, - A Brief History of Time (1988) he went on to Cambridge University to study Cosmology, gaining his PhD and becoming a research fellow and lecturer. - Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays(1993) • His most notable work has been on the basic laws which govern the - The Universe in a Nutshell (2001) universe - including theories about the Big Bang and black holes. - On The Shoulders of Giants (2002) A Genius First - God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That • Hawking’s first major breakthrough came in 1970 when he and Roger Changed History (2005) Penrose applied the mathematics of black holes to the entire universe and showed that a singularity, a region of infinite curvature in spacetime, - The Dreams That Stuff Is Made of: The Most Astounding Papers of lay in our distant past: the point from which came the big bang. Quantum Physics and How They Shook the Scientific World (2011) • Hawking continued to work on black holes and in 1974 drew on - My Brief History (2013) quantum theory to declare that black holes should emit heat and eventually pop out of existence. 19 Facts about Stephen Hawking - • In 1982, Hawking was among the first to show how quantum fluctuations – tiny variations in the distribution of matter – might give rise whether the famous scientist was an through inflation to the spread of galaxies in the universe. atheist, his theories and his love life • Hawkings wrote ‘A Brief History of Time’ explaining complex scientific After Stephen Hawking death we look at some of the most theories to the masses, which was published for the first time in 1988. remarkable facts about the man who made science accessible to millions 2 Daily Visit : http://www.GovernmentAdda.com & http://www.CurrentAffairsOnly.com a complete hub for education Monthly Bulletin Feb – March 2018 | Sankalp Education Ahmednagar 8975830101 | 8975930101 British physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76, He had a difficult time at the local public school and was but he's left a lasting legacy behind. persecuted as a "swot" who was more interested in jazz, From his book A Brief History of Time to appearing on classical music and debating than sport and pop. Although not television shows, the scientist has made science accessible - top of the class, he was good at maths and "chaotically and interesting - for the masses. enthusiastic in chemistry". But what do we know of his life? We take a look at the man, He went on to study physics as Maths wasn't available at the his marriage, how he talked with his synthesizer and his views university he chose - he went to the same college as his father on black holes, religion and what he wanted on his at Oxford. tombstone. While Hawking tried to solve the mysteries of the universe, 5. ...in fact he said he was mediocre the man himself was quite happy to share his life. Hawking has said of his workload as an undergraduate at Here are some facts about Stephen Oxford "amounted to an average of just an hour a day". Hawking. He also said: "I'm not proud of this lack of work, I'm just describing my attitude at the time, which I shared with most 1. Where did he grow up? of my fellow students. You were supposed to be brilliant without effort, or to accept your limitations and get a fourth Born in Oxford on January 8 1942 - 300 years after the death class degree." of astronomer Galileo Galilei - Professor Hawking grew up in St Albans, Hertfordshire. His parents thought it was safer than London. 6. He went on to get a first 2. When was he diagnosed? Despite his workload confession, Hawking got a first and went to Cambridge to begin work on his PhD - but he was already beginning to experience the first symptoms of his illness, After falling while ice skating during his first year as a grad having fallen over twice for no reason during the last year of student he was told he had a rare form of motor neurone his undergraduate degree. disease - amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) - at the age of 22. Hawking was given just a few years to live. It's unusual to be 7. His first marriage diagnosed so early, but he later said it meant he had to think. Hawking has credited his marriage in 1965 to Jane Wilde, a "By losing the finer dexterity of my hands, I was forced to language student, as a turning point in his life at a time when travel through the universe in my mind and try to visualize the he was unsure as to what the point of a degree was if he was ways in which it worked," he later said. to die soon. They went on to have three children - Robert, Lucy, and Timothy. 3. He's appeared in a lot of TV shows 8. He interrupted a lecture Hawking is as much a celebrity as he is a scientist, having appeared on The Simpsons, Futurama, Star Trek and having At a meeting of the Royal Society meeting, Hawking provided narration for a British Telecom commercial that was interrupted a lecture by renowned astrophysicist Sir Fred later sampled on a Pink Floyd album. He first appeared as Hoyle to let him know that he had made a mistake. When himself on TV in 1993 - in Star Trek: The Next Generation - asked how he knew there had been an error, Hawking replied: making jokes while playing poker with Albert Einstein and "Because I've worked them out in my head." Isaac Newton. He also appeared on The Big Bang Theory. He's also starred in his own miniseries Stephen Hawking's 9. His research on black holes Universe. During the 1970s Hawking produced a stream of first class research, including probably his most important contribution 4. He was bullied at school - and wasn't actually to cosmology: the discovery of Hawking radiation, which top of the class 3 Daily Visit : http://www.GovernmentAdda.com & http://www.CurrentAffairsOnly.com a complete hub for education Monthly Bulletin Feb – March 2018 | Sankalp Education Ahmednagar 8975830101 | 8975930101 allows a black hole to leak energy and gradually fade away to 15. His life could be summed up in an equation nothing. His formula involves the speed of light (c), Newton's constant (G) and other symbols that probably make no sense to you or 10. A Brief History Of Time was a best selling book me - it's used for measuring emissions from black holes, a formula known as Hawking radiation. In the 1980s, Professor Hawking and Professor Jim Hartle proposed a model of the universe which had no boundaries in Hawking himself was puzzled at first as he thought black holes space or time.