Stephen Hawking

  • Birth

  • extended the singularity theorem

  • Black Holes

    Hawking returned to Cambridge in 1975 to a more academically senior post, as reader in gravitational physics.
  • 1990

    Hawking pursued his work in physics: in 1993 he co-edited a book on Euclidean quantum gravity with Gary Gibbons and published a collected edition of his own articles on black holes and the Big Bang.[171] In 1994, at Cambridge's Newton Institute, Hawking and Penrose delivered a series of six lectures that were published in 1996 as "The Nature of Space and Time".
  • 2000

    Hawking continued his writings for a popular audience, publishing The Universe in a Nutshell in 2001,[182] and A Briefer History of Time, which he wrote in 2005 with Leonard Mlodinow to update his earlier works with the aim of making them accessible to a wider audience, and God Created the Integers, which appeared in 2006.
  • Death