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Because of the World War II and the onslaught of German bombs, Stephen's parents moved to Oxford to have their first child. This city was safer than London.
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Stephen Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford, England. He was the older of four brothers and sisters. His father was a doctor.
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At the age of 16, Stephen, with his friends, constructed a computer out of recycled parts for solving rudimentary mathematical equations.
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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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While he was studying cosmology at the University of Cambridge, he was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a rare disease. He was losing the control of his muscles little by little.
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After 2 years he was married with Jane Wilde. -
Stephen and Jane had their first daugther, Lucy.
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Hawking's research turned him into a celebrity within the scientific world when he 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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He won the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics of the University of Cambridge.
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Hawking, a recipient of the Commander of the Order of the British Empire, catapulted to international prominence with the publication of A Brief History of Time.
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He recived this prize because of his work about of the cientists divulgation
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Lucy and Stephen wrote a junior novel about the universe and physics: The secret key of the universe
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Hawking was rushed to the hospital for being gravely ill.
