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Birth
Stephen Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford, England, 300 years after Galileo died. -
Stephen Hawking Attends High School
Stephen attended high school at St Albans school in North London in 1953-58. -
Stephen Attends College
Stephen Hawking attended Oxford University at age 17. -
Disease
Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with ALS disease at age 21, the same disease that the famous baseball player Lou Gehrig was diagnosed with. -
Stephen Hawking's Wedding
Stephen Hawking marries Jane Hawking at age 23. -
Hawking is made a member of the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge
Stephen was made a member of the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge in 1968, when he was 46 -
Hawking And Black Holes
In 1970, Hawking discovered the second law of black hole dynamics that the event horizon of a black hole can never get smaller. Along with, James M. Bardeen and Brandon Carter, he proposed the four laws of black hole mechanics. -
Black Holes
In 1973, Stephen Hawking joined the department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics at Cambridge.In the same 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 -
Stephen and The Royal Society
Stephen Hawking was made a member of the Royal Society at age 32. -
Stephen and Cambridge University
Appointed Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge (a chair held by Sir Isaac Newton in 1663). Elected as a fellow of the Royal Society. -
Stephen is awarded a CBE by the Queen
Stephen was awarded a CBE by the Queen on 1982, a feat that not many people have accomplished in their lives before. -
Stephen Hawking Publishes His First Book
Stephen Hawking published his first book, "A Brief History Of Time", which became an instant bestseller book. He was 46. -
Stephen's Modern Research
Hawking announces that he has solved the Black Hole paradox, which has been a troubling scientists for years. He presents his most recent findings at the international conference on general relativity and gravitation in Dublin. -
Death
Stephen Hawking died on March 14, 2018, in his home peacefully.
