About Stephen Hawking, his life, challenges he faced, about his family, his ungraduated life, about his childhood, his awards and much more

1. Stephen Hawking
Prepared by: Atharv Sah
DPS Haldwani

2. Stephen Hawing

3. Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was
an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was
director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at
the University of Cambridge at the time of his death.
He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of
Cambridge between 1979 and 2009.

4. childhood
Stephen William Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford,
England.
 His father, a well-known researcher in tropical medicine, urged his
son to seek a career in medicine, but Stephen found biology and
medicine were not exact enough. Therefore, he turned to the study of
mathematics and physics.
 Hawking was not an outstanding student
at St. Alban's School, nor later at Oxford
University, which he entered in 1959.

5. New life Begins
He was a social young man who did little schoolwork because he
was able to grasp the essentials of a mathematics or physics problem
quickly. At home he reports, "I would take things apart to see how
they worked, but they didn't often go back together."
His early school years were marked by unhappiness at school, with
his peers and on the playing field.
While at Oxford he became increasingly interested in physics (study
of matter and energy), eventually graduating with a first class honors
in physics (1962). He immediately began postgraduate studies at
Cambridge University.
The onset of Hawking's graduate education at Cambridge marked a
turning point in his life.

6. It was then that he embarked upon the formal study of cosmology,
which focused his study. And it was then that he was first stricken
with Lou Gehrig's disease, a weakening disease of the nervous and
muscular system that eventually led to his total confinement in a
wheelchair.

7. FAMILY
Hawking's mother was born into a family of doctors in Glasgow,
Scotland. His wealthy paternal great-grandfather, from Yorkshire,
over-extended himself buying farm land and then went bankrupt in
the great agricultural depression during the early 20th century.
 His paternal great-grandmother saved the family from financial
ruin by opening a school in their home.
Despite their families' financial constraints,
both parents attended the University
of Oxford, where Frank read medicine
and Isobel read Philosophy, Politics and
Economics.

8. Isobel worked as a secretary for a medical research institute, and
Frank was a medical researcher. Hawking had two younger sisters,
Philippa and Mary, and an adopted brother, Edward Frank David
(1955–2003).
In 1950, when Hawking's father became head of the division of
parasitology at the National Institute for Medical Research, the family
moved to St Albans, Hertfordshire.
 In St Albans, the family was considered highly intelligent and
somewhat eccentric; meals were often spent with each person
silently reading a book. They lived a frugal existence in a large,
cluttered, and poorly maintained house and travelled in a converted
London taxicab.

10. Undergraduate life
Hawking began his university education at University College,
Oxford, in October 1959 at the age of 17. For the first 18 months, he
was bored and lonely – he found the academic work "ridiculously
easy”.
A change occurred during his second and third year when,
according to Berman( his physics tutor ), Hawking made more of an
effort "to be one of the boys". He developed into a popular, lively and
witty college member, interested in classical music and science
fiction.
 Part of the transformation resulted from his decision to join the
college boat club, the University College Boat Club, where he a
rowing crew. The rowing coach at the time noted that Hawking
cultivated a daredevil image, steering his crew on risky courses that

11. • Hawking estimated that he studied about 1,000 hours during
his three years at Oxford. These unimpressive study habits made
sitting his finals a challenge, and he decided to answer
only theoretical physics questions rather than those requiring
factual knowledge.
• A first-class honors degree was a condition of acceptance for
his planned graduate study in cosmology at the University of
Cambridge. Anxious, he slept poorly the night before the
examinations, and the final result was on the borderline
between first- and second-class honors, making a viva (oral
examination) with the Oxford examiners necessary.

13. Awards
Hawking received numerous awards and honours. Already early in
the list, in 1974 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).
Hawking received the 2015 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge
Award in Basic Sciences shared with Viatcheslav Mukhanov for
discovering that the galaxies were formed from quantum fluctuations
in the early Universe.
At the 2016 Pride of Britain Awards, Hawking received the lifetime
achievement award "for his contribution to science and British
culture".

14. Hawking was a member of the Advisory Board of
the Starmus Festival, and had a major role in
acknowledging and promoting science
communication.
The Stephen Hawking Medal for Science
Communication is an annual award initiated in
2016 to honour members of the arts community
for contributions that help build awareness of
science.
 After receiving the award from Prime
Minister Theresa May, Hawking humorously
requested that she not seek his help with Brexit.

16. Reason For choosing Stephen hawking for this ppt
Stephen hawking was a very great scientist, he is a well known
scientist.
He was best known for his theory of cosmology explained by a union
of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. He was a
vigorous supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum
mechanics.
I selected him for my project work because I am also fond of physics
and I am motivated by his work.