Stephen William Hawking was born in January 1942 in Oxford, England. He was an English cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and author who served as director of research at the Theoretical Cosmology at Cambridge University at the time of his death.

Hawking was a Mathematics Professor at Cambridge University from 1979 to 2009.

Education

Hawking began his academic career in October 1959, at the age of 17, at University College, Oxford, where he got a first-class BA degree in physics.

He began his graduate studies at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in October 1962 and received his Ph.D. in Physics and Applied Mathematics in March 1966, focusing on general relativity and cosmology.

Career and Achievements

Hawking’s scientific framework included cooperation with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the context of general relativity and the theoretical prognosis that black holes radiate radiations, which is frequently known as Hawking radiation.

Hawking’s popular science books, in which he expressed his theories and cosmology in general, were commercially successful. Moreover, his book “A Brief History of Time” spent a record-breaking 237 weeks on the “Sunday Times” bestseller list.

Personal Life

Hawking married Jane Wilde on 14 July 1965 in their hometown of St Albans. The following year, he was afflicted with motor neuron disease.

Death

Hawking died on 14 March 2018, at the age of 76, after more than 50 years of living with motor neuron disease.