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He was born on January 8, 1942 in Oxford, United Kingdom, where her parents Isobel Hawking and Frank Hawking moved, seeking greater security for the pregnancy of their first child.
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He moves to St Albans, where he attends the St Albans Girls Institute.
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He attends the homonymous school of St Albans School, where he is a good student, although not brilliant.
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Stephen is enrolled in natural sciences and is awarded a scholarship at University College Oxford. Once there he specializes in physics. During that time his interest focused on thermodynamics, relativity, and quantum mechanics.
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-He has a degree in Mathematics and Physics. During that time he was a young man with brilliant intelligence and an immense interest in science. -In October 1962 he began his doctoral studies at Cambridge Trinity Hall on theoretical physics and cosmology. -At his arrival in Cambridge, he began to develop symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). However, it didn't matter.
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-During a party he meets Jane Wilde, with whom he develops a friendship that becomes a romance. -During an ice skating session Stephen slides hitting his head hard. He is immediately diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a progressive neurodegenerative disease that would prevent him from moving and speaking and that would soon end his life.
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He is married to Jane Wilde, who supports him at all times.
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He obtained his doctorate in physics at Cambridge. His passion for studying the origin of the universe was on the rise and his research focused on the field of general relativity, particularly the physics of black holes.
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His son Robert Hawking born.
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-Approves the first of its several singularity theorems, which provide a series of conditions sufficient for the existence of a spatio-temporal singularity in space-time. -Born his daughter Lucy Hawking.
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He joins the Cambridge Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.
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-Hawking is appointed member of the Royal Society. -It proposes, according to the predictions of quantum physics, that black holes emit thermal radiation until their energy is exhausted and extinguished.
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They give him the Eddington Medal.
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He entered the Cambridge Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, where he was appointed professor of Gravitational Physics.
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- His son Tim Hawking is born.
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Access to the ownership of the Lucasian Chair of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics that took Isaac Newton in 1663.
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In Switzerland he had severe pneumonia and doctors advised removing the machine that kept him alive. He urgently moved to the UK and underwent a tracheostomy that saved his life but left him voiceless.
During that period he lost all movement, and since then he only communicates through a voice synthesizer connected to his chair. -
His book "A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes", one of his best-known works, is published.
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He is awarded the Prince of Asturias Award.
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Hawking and Jane are separated. He is going to live with Elaine Mason, one of the nurses who takes care of him.
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Hawking publishes Black Holes and baby Universes and Other Essays.
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He marries Elaine Mason.
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He publishes The Universe in a Nutshell.
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-He only communicates by moving a muscle under his eye with which he activates a voice synthesizer. -Published A Briefer History of Time in collaboration with Leonard Mlodinow.
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He makes a flight to the stratosphere where he can experience weightlessness.
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-On 1 October he retires as a professor of physics and abandons the title of Lucasiana Chair of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. From there he became director of research at the educational center. -He was awarded the Medal of Freedom. -He is admitted to a Cambridge medical center due to the severity of his condition.
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He is awarded the Special Prize for Fundamental Physics.
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He presents a new communication system devised by the multinational Intel. "Smart machines can end the human race," he says.
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He is awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.
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He embarks on the Breakthrough Starshot project (a tiny spacecraft sets out to travel to the Alpha Centauri star system) alongside Russian millionaire Yuri Milnerel and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
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On March 14, 2018, at the age of 76, he passed away at his home in Cambridge, UK. The cause of his death was not disclosed, it was simply mentioned that he "expired in peace."
