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stephen hawking born on january 8 of 1942
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Spouse: Elaine Mason (m. 1995–2006), Jane Hawking (m. 1965–1995)Children: Lucy Hawking, Timothy Hawking, Robert Hawking
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He studied physics at Oxford University and later enrolled at Cambridge for his doctoral research in cosmology.
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In early 1963, just shy of his 21st birthday, Hawking was diagnosed with motor neuron disease
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Hawking met Jane Wilde, and the two were married in 1965.
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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
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In 1974 the Royal Society elected him one of its youngest fellows.
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He became professor of gravitational physics at Cambridge in 1977
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and in 1979 he was appointed to Cambridge’s Lucasian professorship of mathematics,
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Hawking was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1982 and a Companion of Honour in 1989.
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Talking grew more challenging and, in 1985, an emergency tracheotomy caused his total loss of speech.
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In 2008 he accepted a visiting research chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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March 14, 2018, Cambridge, United Kingdom