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stephen is born
he has three siblings robert, lucy, and timothy. -
motor neurone disease.
Hawking contracted motor neurone disease and was given two years to live. Yet he went on to Cambridge to become a brilliant researcher and Professorial Fellow at Gonville and Caius College. -
clumsy stephen
he was able to feed myself, and get in and out of bed. Jane managed to help me, and bring up the children, without outside help. However, things were getting more difficult, so we took to having one of my research students -
CBE
Professor Hawking has twelve honorary degrees. He was awarded the CBE in 1982 -
companion of honuor
he made a Companion of Honour in 1989. He is the recipient of many awards, medals and prizes, is a Fellow of The Royal Society and a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences. -
principal investigator
he has been Principal Investigator of the COSMOS National Cosmology Supercomputers . -
his main interface
My main interface to the computer is through a program called EZ Keys, written by Words Plus Inc. This provides a software keyboard on the screen. A cursor automatically scans across this keyboard by row or by column. I can select a character by moving my cheek to stop the cursor. My cheek movement is detected by an infrared switch that is mounted on my spectacles