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Stephen Hawking born on January 8, 1942, in a family of intellectuals in Oxford, Great Britain
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He was a British theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, cosmologist and science popularizer.
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His most important works were theorems regarding space-time singularities in the framework of general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes would emit radiation.
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At the age of 21, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
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He was the holder of the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics in the Cambridge university
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Hawking was the Lucasiano Professor at Cambridge University for thirty years, from 1979 until his retirement on October 1, 2009
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He received twelve honorary doctorates and was awarded the Order of the British Empire (CBE degree) in 1982
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In 2009 he participated in a tribute to Carl Sagan sponsored by Jack White's label, Third Man Records.
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On March 14, 2018, at the age of 76, he passed away at his home in Cambridge, UK.
