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BIRTH
Stephen Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 in Oxford to Frank and Isobel Eileen Hawking. -
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CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL YEARS
Hawking began his schooling at the Byron House School in Highgate, London and later attended two independent schools, first Radlett School St Albans School -
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UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
Hawking began his university education at University College, Oxford, in October 1959 at the age of 17 and continued at the at university of Cambridge for his PhD -
DISEASE DIAGNOSIS
Hawking had a rare early-onset slow-progressing form of motor neuron disease , a fatal neurodegenerative disease that results in the death of motor neurones in the brain and spinal cord, which gradually paralysed him over decades. -
GRADUATION
He obtained his PhD degree in applied mathematics and theoretical physics, specialising in general relativity and cosmology, in March 1966 -
ADAMS PRIZE
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EDDINGTON MEDAL
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MAXWELL MEDAL AND PRIZE
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ALBERT EINSTEIN AWARD
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RAS GOLD MEDAL
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DIRAC MEDAL
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WOLF PRIZE
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Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences
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PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM
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BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE IN FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS
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BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
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DEATH
Hawking died at his home in Cambridge, England, on 14 March 2018, at the age of 76.