Stephen Hawking 1942 - 2018

1. Stephen Hawking: 1942 - 2018

2. Stephen William Hawking
8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018
Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 in Oxford, England. His family had moved to Oxford to escape
the threat of V2 rockets over London. As a child, he showed prodigious talent and unorthodox study methods. On
leaving school, he got a place at University College, Oxford University where he studied Physics. His physics tutor at
Oxford, Robert Berman, later said that Stephen Hawking was an extraordinary student. He used few books and made
no notes, but could work out theorems and solutions in a way other students couldn’t.
Stephen Hawking is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author. He is best known for his attempts to
explain in clear terms the origins of the universe and some of the most complicated aspects of the cosmos and
physics. Hawking was the first scientist to offer a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of
relativity and quantum mechanics.

3. Graduate assistant Colin Williams talks to Stephen
Hawking at Harvard University in April 1984.
Photograph: Boston Globe via Getty Images

4. Hawking (holding a handkerchief) with the Oxford Boat Club, early 1960s.

5. Cambridge University professor and fellow
Stephen Hawking, circa 1985. Photograph:
Gemma Levine/Getty Images

6. Wedding of Stephen and Jane Hawking in 1965.

7. Stephen Hawking arrives with his first wife, Jane, and
son to receive an honorary degree at Cambridge.
Photograph: Frank Martin/the Guardian

8. Stephen Hawking with his wife, Jane,
and his daughter Lucy in the garden of
his home in Cambridge (Great Britain),
in 1977. IAN BERRY MAGNUM

9. Stephen Hawking, his former wife, Jane, their daughter Lucy and his carers face banks of press photographers at the EE Bafta film awards at the Royal Opera House,
London. Photograph: Sarah Lee/the Guardian

11. Stephen Hawking in Princeton, New Jersey in October 1979. Photograph: Santi Visalli/Getty Images

12. British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking during a presentation at the Free University of Berlin. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

13. The British physicist Stephen
Hawking looks on the screen at the
Simpsons cartoons in which he
appears as characters, during his
conference "Science in the future",
in Bombay, on June 14, 2001.
SHERWIN CRASTO AP

14. Meeting the Queen at a reception for the Leonard Cheshire disability charity at St James’s Palace in 2014. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock

15. Stephen Hawking floating in a zero-gravity jet
undertaking parabolic dips to simulate space
conditions over the Atlantic. Photograph: AP

16. At his old school, St Albans, giving a lecture on the origin of the universe. Photograph: Matthew Power/Rex/Shutterstock

17. Eddie Redmayne and Stephen Hawking at The Theory of Everything
feature film premiere at the Odeon, Leicester Square in December
2014. Photograph: Joanne Davidson/Silverhub/Rex/Shutterstock

18. British scientists shot for a Guardian Weekend
magazine feature, Of Mind and Matter. From left
to right, David Attenborough, Brian Cox, Stephen
Hawking and Richard Dawkins. Photograph:
Alastair Thain/Alastair Thain (commissioned)

19. Taking a trip in a hot air
balloon as his 60th birthday
treat, on 4 March 2002.
Photograph: Keith
Jones/Rex/Shutterstock

20. Meeting Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican in 2008. Photograph: Olycom SPA/Rex/Shutterstock

21. Stephen Hawking's daughter says stubbornness and
laughter have kept her father going - Telegraph

22. Stephen Hawking held the post of Lucasian professor of mathematics at the department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics at Cambridge University
between 1979 and 2009. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

23. The British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking
talks with the then Princes of Asturias, Don
Felipe and Doña Letizia, during the inauguration
in Oviedo of the commemorative acts of the
XXV anniversary of the Prince of Asturias
Awards, in which he delivered the conference
entitled "The nature of the reality "that revises
his philosophical and intellectual thinking.
ALBERTO MORANTE EFE

24. A scene from Errol Morris’s documentary A Brief History of Time (1992). Photograph: Triton/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock

25. Giving a speech during the opening
ceremony of the 2012 Paralympics in
London. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP

26. Former South African President Nelson Mandela (R) meets Stephen Hawking at
Mandela's Foundation office in Johannesburg May 15, 2008. REUTERS/Pool

27. Receiving the Presidential Medal of
Freedom from Barack Obama at the
White House on 12 August 2009.
Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock

28. Stephen Hawking with his second wife, Elaine Mason, after their
marriage at Cambridge register office. Photograph: Tim Ockenden/PA

29. Stephen Hawking and his
wife Elaine, on the beach
promenade of San Lorenzo
beach in Gijón, in 2005.
ALONSO
GONZALES REUTERS

30. Stephen Hawking views his wheelchair computer
screen in front of a presentation screen as he attends
a launch event for a new award for science
communication, called the Stephen Hawking Medal
for Science Communication, in London in Britain
December 16, 2015. REUTERS/Toby Melville

31. Stephen Hawking delivers a lecture on "The Origin of the Universe" at the
Heysel conference hall in Brussels May 20, 2007. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

32. British musician and astrophysicist Brian May holds a medal as he attends a launch event for a new award for science communication, called the Stephen Hawking Medal
for Science Communication, in London in Britain December 16, 2015. REUTERS/Toby Melville

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