Rocking with Hawking

Diagnosed with motor neuron diease

Dec 27, 1963

Diagnosed with ALS

Life expentancy with diagnosis

Dec 27, 1965

He completed his doctorate

Mar 2, 1966

Hawking finishes his doctorate studies at Cambridge University

Black holes arent black??

Apr 2, 1970

By using quantum theory and general relativity he is able to show that black holes can emit radiation.

Black holes exploding?!

Apr 2, 1973

In this year he discovers, to his disbelief, that black holes could leak energy and particles into space, and even explode in a fountain of high-energy sparks.

With his hero

Apr 2, 1979

Appointed Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge (a chair held by Sir Isaac Newton in 1663)

Success as an author

Apr 2, 1988

Publishes A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, a classic introduction to today's most important scientific ideas about the cosmos