STEPHEN HAWKING

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  • BIRTH

    Stephen Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 in Oxford to Frank and Isobel Eileen Hawking.
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    CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL YEARS

    Hawking began his schooling at the Byron House School in Highgate, London and later attended two independent schools, first Radlett School St Albans School
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    UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

    Hawking began his university education at University College, Oxford, in October 1959 at the age of 17 and continued at the at university of Cambridge for his PhD

  • DISEASE DIAGNOSIS

    Hawking had a rare early-onset slow-progressing form of motor neuron disease , a fatal neurodegenerative disease that results in the death of motor neurones in the brain and spinal cord, which gradually paralysed him over decades.

  • GRADUATION

    He obtained his PhD degree in applied mathematics and theoretical physics, specialising in general relativity and cosmology, in March 1966

  • ADAMS PRIZE

  • EDDINGTON MEDAL

  • MAXWELL MEDAL AND PRIZE

  • ALBERT EINSTEIN AWARD

  • RAS GOLD MEDAL

  • DIRAC MEDAL

  • WOLF PRIZE

  • Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences

  • PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM

  • BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE IN FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS

  • BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

  • DEATH

    Hawking died at his home in Cambridge, England, on 14 March 2018, at the age of 76.