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Birth
He was born on January 8, 1942 in Oxford. -
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Childhood and adolescence
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They moved to St Albans
In 1950 they moved to St Albans, where she attended St Albans Girls' High School (which admitted boys up to the age of ten). -
Change of school
He switched to the homonymous school, where he was a good student, though not a brilliant one. -
University studies
He began to study natural sciences at the University of Oxford. -
He does rowing sports in the university
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Received his bachelor's degree
He received his undergraduate degree from Oxford. -
Cambridge studies
He did his postgraduate studies at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. -
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Career
The professional career he had after his university studies. -
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis symptoms
Shortly after arriving in Cambridge, he began to develop symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a type of motor neuronal disease that would cause him to lose most of his neuromuscular control. -
First Wending
He married Jane Wilde with whom he had three children. -
First singularity theorem
He performed the first of his several singularity theorems, which provide a series of sufficient conditions for the existence of a spacetime singularity in spacetime. -
Member of the Royal Society
Hawking was one of the youngest to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. -
No hair theorem
His work with Brandon Carter, Werner Israel, and D. Robinson was an accolade for John Archibald Wheeler's no-hair theorem, which postulates that every black hole is fully described by its properties of mass, angular momentum, and electric charge. -
Hawking radiation
He calculated that black holes must create and thermally emit subatomic particles, which is now known as Hawking radiation, until they use up their energy and evaporate. -
Divorce
Divorce with Jane Wilde. -
Second wedding
He married Elaine Jason, he had no children. -
Top-down cosmology
Together with Thomas Hertog, Hawking proposed a theory based on the top-down cosmology, according to which the universe did not have a single initial state and, therefore, physicists should not pretend to formulate a theory that explains the current configuration of the universe on the basis of a specific initial state. -
Divorce
Elaine and Hawking divorce for alleged abuse towards Hawking. -
Retirement as a teacher
Hawking was the Lucasiano professor at the University of Cambridge for thirty years. -
Tribute to Carl Sagan
Participó en un homenaje a Carl Sagan auspiciado por la discográfica de Jack White, Third Man Records. -
Death :(
At the age of 76, he died at his home in Cambridge, United Kingdom, according to a statement released by his family, the content of which is collected by several English media. They did not reveal the cause of death, they simply mentioned that he "expired in peace."
