1. His Life and Vestige
PRESENT BY
YUVRAJ B. RATHOD
EN NO:110210125105
B.E PROD
GEC BHAVANGAR
2.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8.
9. 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
10. 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
11.
12. Stephen Hawking is severely disabled by a
motor neurone disease known as
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
13.
14. Hawking's illness is markedly different from
typical ALS in that his form of ALS would
make for the most protracted case ever
documented.
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16. 1975 Eddington Medal
1976 Hughes Medal of the Royal Society
1979 Albert Einstein Medal
1981 Franklin Medal
17. 1982
Order of the British Empire
(Commander)
1985
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
1986 Member of the
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
18. 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics
1989 Prince of Asturias Awards in Concord
19. 1989 Companion of Honour
1999 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the
American Physical Society[46]
2003 Michelson Morley Award of
Case Western Reserve University
20. 2006 Copley Medal of the Royal Society[47]
2008 Fonseca Price of the
University of Santiago de Compostela
2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the
highest civilian honour in the United States
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22. A Brief History of Time (1991)
Stephen Hawking's Universe (1997)
Horizon: The Hawking Paradox (2005
23. Masters of Science Fiction (2007)
Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe (2008)
Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking(2010)
