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Stephen Hawking was born in the United Kingdom, Oxford.
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Hawking was diagnosed at age 21 and advised that the average life expectancy of people with ALS is between four and five years, but
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After to receive his undergraduate degree from Oxford in 1962, he did his postgraduate studies at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He obtained his doctorate in physics from Cambridge in 1966.He was a British theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, cosmologist, and science popularizer
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He postulated with other scientists that every black hole is fully described with its properties of mass, angular momentum and electric charge.
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In 1974, he calculated that black holes must create and thermally emit subatomic particles, what is now known as Hawking radiation, until they use up their energy and evaporate. After analyzing gamma-ray emissions, Hawking suggested that tiny primitive black holes formed after the big bang.
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He was the first to develop an equation to try to unify general relativity and quantum physics, a 'theory of everything
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Hawking and Thomas Hertog proposed a theory based on top-down cosmology, according to which the universe did not have a single initial state and, therefore, physicists should not pretend to formulate a theory that explains the current configuration of the universe on the basis of a specific initial state.
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At the age of 76, he died at his home in Cambridge, UK
