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Born
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Moved to St. Albans
Moved to St. Albans and attended a girls school. -
Introduced to technology and rebuilt computers from spare parts at school.
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Started universtiy in Oxford
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Graduate Work
Began graduate work at Trinity University -
Diagnosed with ALS
Diagnosed with ALS at the age of 21. Given two years to live. -
Engaged to Jane Wilde
Got engaged to Jane Wilde, a friend of his sisters. -
Challenged Fred Hoyle
Continued studies and challenged the work of Fred Hoyle -
Wrote thesis on black holes
Wrote theorem of a spacetime singularity in the centre of black holes -
Married
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Completed doctorate
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Essay won Adams Prize
"Singularities and the Geometry of Space-Time" shared top honours with one by Penrose to win that year's Adams Prize.[63][62] -
Son was born
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Daughter born
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Came up with second law of black hole dynamics
His essay titled "Black Holes" won the Gravity Research Foundation Award in January 1971 -
Published theory of origins of universe
1970 they published a proof that if the universe obeys the general theory of relativity and fits any of the models of physical cosmology developed by Alexander Friedmann, then it must have begun as a singularity -
Published first book
Hawking's first book The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time written in 1973 -
Moved to Cambridge