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Stephen William Hawking was born on January 8, 1942 to Frank and Isobel Hawking in Oxford, England.
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The Hawkings moved to St Albans in Hertfordshire.
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Attends St Albans in North London, where he develops a passion for mathematics, but his father wants him to study medicine.
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At the age of 16, Stephen and his friends, constructed a computer out of recycled parts for solving rudimentary mathematical equations.
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Attends the University of Oxford in England. His passion was math but his degree was in Natural Sciences because that was what he was awarded a scholarship in.
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Stephen graduated with honors, and went on to attend the University of Cambridge for a Ph.D in cosmology.
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Stephen Hawking attended Trinity Hall in Cambridge, England.
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While he was studying cosmology at the University of Cambridge, he was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a rare disease. He was losing control of his muscles little by little.
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Married Jane Wilde.
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He was awarded the Adams Prize.
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Stephen Hawking earns his Ph.D. from Gonville and Caius College in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, specializing in general relativity and cosmology.
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Birth of Stephen and Jane's first child.
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Birth of Stephen and Jane's second child.
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Appointed to a year-long position at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California
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Hawking's research turned him into a celebrity within the scientific world when showed that black holes aren't the information vacuums. Hawking demonstrated that matter, in the form of radiation, can escape the gravitational force of a collapsed star. Hawking Radiation was born.
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Awarded the Eddington Medal and Pius XI Medal
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Awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize in Mathematics
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Awarded the Maxwell prize.
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Awarded the Hughes Medal
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The birth of Stephen and Jane's 3rd child.
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Stephen won the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics of the University of Cambridge.
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Stephen Hawking announced his contraversial Black Hole Theroy which led to much debate.
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This was the theory that the Universe was infinite.
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Awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Awarded the Paul Dirac Medal.
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A Brief History of Time; From the Big Bang to Black Holes is published.
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Awarded the Wolf Prize
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He is dubbed the "Master of the Universe" on the cover of Newsweek Magazine
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He begins using a speech generating device developed by Intel.
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Awarded the Order of the Companions of Honor.
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Declined Knighthood from the Queen of England.
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A film version of A Brief History of Time is produced by Steven Spielberg.
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Black Holes and Baby Universes published
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The Nature of Space and Time is published.
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A six-part television mini-series airs.
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The Universe in a Nutshell is published.
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Awarded the Copley Medal by the Royal Society.
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Stephen and Lucy Hawking publish children's book George's Secret Key to the Universe.
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Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama. This is United States's highest civil honour.
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Hollywood Film of the Theory of Everything is released. This film wins several Academy Awards.
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Helps launch Breakthrough Initiatives, an effort to search for extra terrestial beings.
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The book Genius is published.
