Stephen hawking

stephen hawking

  • when he born

    when he born
    stephen hawking born on january 8 of 1942
  • his family

    Spouse: Elaine Mason (m. 1995–2006), Jane Hawking (m. 1965–1995)Children: Lucy Hawking, Timothy Hawking, Robert Hawking
  • university

    He studied physics at Oxford University and later enrolled at Cambridge for his doctoral research in cosmology.
  • diagnosed with motor neuron disease

    In early 1963, just shy of his 21st birthday, Hawking was diagnosed with motor neuron disease
  • married

    married
    Hawking met Jane Wilde, and the two were married in 1965.
  • black hole propose

    In 1974 Hawking proposed that, in accordance with the predictions of quantum theory, black holes emit subatomic particles until they exhaust their energy and finally explode
  • elected by the royas society

    In 1974 the Royal Society elected him one of its youngest fellows.
  • became a professor

    He became professor of gravitational physics at Cambridge in 1977
  • was appointed to Cambridge’s Lucasian

    and in 1979 he was appointed to Cambridge’s Lucasian professorship of mathematics,
  • was made a comander

    Hawking was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1982 and a Companion of Honour in 1989.
  • a speech emergency

    Talking grew more challenging and, in 1985, an emergency tracheotomy caused his total loss of speech.
  • visiting research chair

    In 2008 he accepted a visiting research chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
  • died

    March 14, 2018, Cambridge, United Kingdom