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He was born in Oxford.
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Attends St Albans school in North London, where he develops a passion for mathematics. His father wants him to study medicine.
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Hawking began his university education at University College, Oxford, at the age of 17.
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Completes his doctorate and is awarded a fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He works on singularities in the theory of general relativity and applies his ideas to the study of black holes. Collaborates with mathematician Roger Penrose, who was working at Birkbeck College in London.
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Appointed Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge (a chair held by Sir Isaac Newton in 1663).
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Publishes A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, a classic introduction to today's most important scientific ideas about the cosmos. Recorded in the 1998 Guinness Book of Records as an all-time bestseller.
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Releases Universe in a Nutshell in the UK, a book that unravels the mysteries of recent breakthroughs in physics.
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Hawking died at his home in Cambridge, England, on 14 March 2018, at the age of 76
