Disability is not an obstacle to success. sublime story

1. STEPHEN HAWKING
FOUNDER, CENTER FOR THEORETICAL COSMOLOGY,
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY

2. EARLY LIFE
• Hawking was born in 1942 in Oxford, London.
• His parents had a very hard time and lived in a very poorly
maintained and cluttered house.
• Initially, he wasn’t successful academically but later on showed
some interest on scientific subjects like in Mathematics.
• But to study in Oxford University, he had to mold his interest to Physics and
Chemistry.
• After getting degree of BA(Hons.) in Natural Sciences he went to Cambridge
University.

3. DISABILITY
• During his final years at Oxford, symptoms of ALS were noted.
• It is a fatal disease which causes the death of neurons controlling voluntary muscles.
• He was told that he will live only two years and a half.
• His voice also began to deteriorate and with the passages of time he totally become
speaking-impaired till 1985.
• He began to use a wheelchair at the end of 1960s.
• Now he uses computer with his only controllable muscle in his cheek.

4. WHAT WAS HIS MOTIVE?
• He says that it is a waste of time to be angry about my disability.
• Everyone has to get on with life and I have not done badly.
• People wouldn't have time for you worry about your disabilities and if you are always
angry or complaining.
• He furthers says that disability need not to be an obstacle to success.
• After knowing that he has ALS he become more conscious to his work and gave all his
zeal and zest to his to myths of universe as he says "My goal is simple, the complete
understanding of Universe".

5. ACHIEVEMENTS
• He has given a theory on Black holes which have been a mystery for
scientists and on which nowadays he is working to prove.
• He have written many books about the mysteries of universe and
about black holes. Most famous of them are here:
• A Brief History of Times, The Grand Design, The Universe in a
nutshell and The Theory of Everything etc.
• Many movies also have been made on him like:
• A Brief History of Time, The Theory of Everything, Beyond the Horizons and Hawking
etc.

6. AWARDS
On his achievements in science, he have been awarded with many Medals and Prizes:
• Presidental Medal of Freedom
• Copley Medal
• Albert Einstein Medal & Award
• Adams Prize
• Maxwell Medal and Prize
• Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
And many others.

7. LESSON FOR US
• I hope you are inspired to know that if he can dream big, so you can.
• There are no walls and if there are then you have to mold them.
• You are for a reason in this world, if a quadriplegic man without working his legs and
arms and many other parts of the body can do such things then why you can't?
• You don’t have to wish that If were Bill Gates or If I were Shahrukh Khan or if were
Bano Qudsya and so on. You have to be yourself.
• Keep your courage and inspirations motivated, your physical ability dosen’t matter if
you are mentally disable that mean If you don’t do anything.

8. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
A PRESENTATION BY MUHAMMAD USMAN