who is stephen hawking?

Answer 1

Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 (300 years after the death of Galileo) in Oxford, England. His parents' house was in north London, but during the second world war Oxford was considered a safer place to have babies. When he was eight, his family moved to St Albans, a town about 20 miles north of London. At eleven Stephen went to St Albans School, and then on to University College, Oxford, his father's old college. Stephen wanted to do Mathematics, although his father would have preferred medicine. Mathematics was not available at University College, so he did Physics instead. After three years and not very much work he was awarded a first class honours degree in Natural Science.

Stephen then went on to Cambridge to do research in Cosmology, there being no-one working in that area in Oxford at the time. His supervisor was Denis Sciama, although he had hoped to get Fred Hoyle who was working in Cambridge. After gaining his Ph.D. he became first a Research Fellow, and later on a Professorial Fellow at Gonville and Caius College. After leaving the Institute of Astronomy in 1973 Stephen came to the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, and since 1979 has held the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. The chair was founded in 1663 with money left in the will of the Reverend Henry Lucas, who had been the Member of Parliament for the University. It was first held by Isaac Barrow, and then in 1663 by Isaac Newton.

Stephen Hawking has worked on the basic laws which govern the universe. With Roger Penrose he showed that Einstein's General Theory of Relativity implied space and time would have a beginning in the Big Bang and an end in black holes. These results indicated it was necessary to unify General Relativity with Quantum Theory, the other great Scientific development of the first half of the 20th Century. One consequence of such a unification that he discovered was that black holes should not be completely black, but should emit radiation and eventually evaporate and disappear. Another conjecture is that the universe has no edge or boundary in imaginary time. This would imply that the way the universe began was completely determined by the laws of science.

His many publications include The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime with G F R Ellis, General Relativity: An Einstein Centenary Survey, with W Israel, and 300 Years of Gravity, with W Israel. Stephen Hawking has two popular books published; his best seller A Brief History of Time, and his later book, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays.

Professor Hawking has twelve honorary degrees, was awarded the CBE in 1982, and was made a Companion of Honour in 1989. He is the recipient of many awards, medals and prizes and is a Fellow of The Royal Society and a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

Stephen Hawking continues to combine family life (he has three children and one grandchild), and his research into theoretical physics together with an extensive programme of travel and public lectures.

Here is a link to his webpage:

http://www.hawking.org.uk/text/about/about.html

Answer 2

He is probably the greatest living theoretical physicist. Though crippled because of a neurological disorder, he carries on with his research. Just type Stephen Hawking in Google and you will get a lot of information.

Answer 3

The main character in

Stephen Hawking's Pro Wheel Chair 1&2

they might be making a 3rd game but I dont know

Answer 4

He's an inspiring physicist who is completely paralyzed, yet still is active and writes about science for the general public. He makes some of the most difficult physics concepts understandable to the general public.

He is preparing for space travel, which has brought him even more recent publicity.

Here is his website:
http://www.hawking.org.uk/home/hindex.html

Here is a great wikipedia article about him:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking

He wrote the book, "A Brief History of Time", which is wonderful, highly recommended, and very popular.

Here's something from his PBS series:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/html/home.html

Answer 5

he's unquestionably considered one of the Rev Einsteins umpteen sock puppet money owed. they arrive out in his help, asserting unfavorable real wing crap like "Yeah atheists won't be in a position of deal with the certainty" or "I even have have been given 3 college tiers and that i'm a creationist" or some quote from a survey from 1820 or a itemizing of little basic technology experts from usa who say they're creationists

Answer 6

famous wheel-chair bound physicist and frequent guest on "The Simpsons". Recently did a "weightless" experiment on some free-falling aircraft.

Answer 7

check this website

http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Hawking.html

Answer 8

this guy......

http://www.stuff.co.nz/images/292669.jpg