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Born January 8, in Oxford, England on 300th anniversary of Galileo's death.
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Diagnosed with neurone disease soon after arriving at Cambridge University to do PHD in Cosmology.
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He calculates that black holes emit radiation and eventually evaporate and disappear.
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He is appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, a post he holds for 30 years.
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He publishes the book "A Brief History of Time" which sells over ten million copies.
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He dies, aged 76
