Stephen Hawking's Life

By Kasmee
  • Some Parts Of This Timeline Are Wrong

    Only Pay Atention to the Years In This Timeline. I couldn't find the dates to the day. Sorry :(
  • He Was Born

    Stephen Hawking was born on January 8, 1942 in Oxford England.
  • Stephen Hawking Moves To St. Albins

    When he was eight, his family moved to St Albans, a town about 20 miles north of London.
  • He Goes To School

    At 11 years old, her goes to St Albans School
  • Stephen Hawking Goes To College

    Oxford University in October 1959 at the age of 17.
  • ADS diagnosis

    He was diagnosed with the deisise, ADS.
  • Quantum Mechanics

    Beginning in 1973, Hawking moved into the study of quantum gravity and quantum mechanics. His work in this area was spurred by a visit to Moscow and discussions with Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich and Alexei Starobinsky, whose work showed that according to the uncertainty principle rotating black holes emit particles.
  • Back To Cambridge

    Hawking returned to Cambridge in 1975 to a new home, a new job—as Reader. Don Page, with whom Hawking had begun a close friendship at Caltech, arrived to work as the live-in graduate student assistant.
  • Medals

    In 1975 he was awarded both the Eddington Medal and the Pius XI Gold Medal, and in 1976 the Dannie Heineman Prize, the Maxwell Prize and the Hughes Medal. Hawking was appointed a professor with a chair in gravitational physics in 1977. The following year he received the Albert Einstein Medal and an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford.
  • A Brand-New Book

    Stephen hawking wrote a book calleed, " THe Universe in a Nutshell."