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steven hawkink was born on 1942 in Oxford, England, on janurary,8
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At age 21, while studying cosmology at the University of Cambridge, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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There were other positive developments: Hawking received a research fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, and he and Jane were married on 14 July 1965
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In 1974, Hawking's research turned him into a celebrity within the scientific world when he showed that black holes aren't the information vacuums that scientists had thought they were.
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In 1997 he conceded a 1991 public scientific wager made with Kip Thorne and John Preskill of Caltec
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Stephen went on to marry Elaine Hawking, one of his former nurses, in 1995. The couple divorced in 2006.