2. Stephen William Hawking
(born 8 January 1942) is an
English theoretical physicist
and cosmologist, whose
scientific books and public
appearances have made him
an academic celebrity.
Stephen Hawking
3. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society
of Arts , a lifetime member of the Pontifical
Academy of Sciencesi
In 2009 was awarded the Presidential Medal of
freedom, the highest civilian award in the United
States.
4. Hawking was the Lucasian Professor of
Mathematics at the University of
Cambridge for thirty years, taking up the
post in 1979 and retiring on 1 October 2009
5. He is also a Fellow of Gonville and Cais
College Cambridge and a Distinguished
Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute
for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario
6. Early life and education
Stephen Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 to
Dr. Frank Hawking, a research biologist, and
Isobel Hawking. He had two younger sisters,
Philippa and Mary, and an adopted brother,
Edward
7.
8. Though Hawking's parents were living in
North London, they moved to Oxford while
his mother was pregnant with Stephen,
desiring a safer location for the birth of their
first child
9. Career in theoretical physics
Almost as soon as he arrived at Cambridge,
he started developing symptoms of
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis a type of motor
neurone disease which would cost him
almost all neuromuscular control
10.
11. Illness
Stephen Hawking is
severely disabled by a
motor neurone disease
known as amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis (ALS).
12. Hawking's illness is markedly different from
typical ALS in that his form of ALS would
make for the most protracted case ever
documented.
13. 1975 Eddington Medal
1976 Hughes Medal of the
Royal Society
1979 Albert Einstein Medal
1981 Franklin Medal
Awards and honours
14. 1982 Order of the British Empire (Commander)
1985 Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
1986 Member of the Pontifical Academy of
Sciences
1988 Wolf Prize in Physics
1989 Prince of Asturias Awards in Concord
15. 1989 Companion of Honour
1999 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the
American Physical Society
2003 Michelson Morley Award of Case
Western Reserve University
16. 2006 Copley Medal of the Royal Society
2008 Fonseca Price of the University of
Santiago de Compostela
2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the
highest civilian honour in the United States
17. Films and Series
1. A Brief History of Time
(1991)
2. Stephen Hawking's
Universe (1997)
3. Horizon: The Hawking
Paradox (2005)
18. Masters of Science Fiction (2007)
Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe
(2008)
Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking
(2010)
