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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
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