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Birth
Stephen William Hawking was born in the British city Oxford, in a family of intellectuals, his father's name was Frank Hawking (an expert doctor in tropical disease research) and his mother's name was Isobel Hawking (he studied politics, economics and philosophy). -
Childhood
Stephen is the oldest of four brothers.
He moves to St. Albans, Hertfordshire for the reason that his father becomes head of the parasitology division.
In this new place it grows in a large house very messy and poorly maintained. -
Studies
He began his university studies at the University of Oxford. He later received a PhD in Theoretical Physics and Cosmology at Cambridge. -
Disease
He is diagnosed with a type of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive neurodegenerative disease that eventually prevented him from moving and talking and led him to use a sophisticated electronic method to communicate with others. -
Married
Stephen Hawking married Jane Wilde, with whom he had three children: Robert, Timothy and Lucy. -
Theories
He revolutionizes Physics with his theories of space-time, the 'big bang' and the radiation of black holes, which he reflected in his work "Brief history of time". -
Travels
He made a flight to the stratosphere in which he could experience weightlessness despite the immobility of his body. -
Project
He presents at the Royal Society of London an extraterrestrial life search project funded by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner. -
Death
Hawking dies in Cambridge, United Kingdom at the age of 76 after fighting degenerative disease since his youth.
