Stephen
Hawking was born on 8th January 1942 in Oxford. His father name was
Frank Hawking and his mother name was Isobel Hawking. He first married to Jane
Hawking. The two got married in 1965, despite the lack of enthusiastic approval
from Hawking's parents. Their marriage eventually ended in 1995 when Hawking
filed for divorce and married one of his nurses, Elaine Mason. While both of
Hawking's marriages ultimately ended in divorce. He had two sons named Robert Hawking and Timothy
Hawking and one daughter named Lucy Hawking.
Early in his
academic life, he was not a bright student. When he was in St. Albans School he
was not interested in studies and was in bottom three students of his class. Hawking
entered University College at Oxford University at the age of 17. There he wants
to study mathematics but Oxford didn't offer a degree in that specialty, so he
started taking interest in physics and cosmology. In 1962 he completed his
graduation with honors in natural science. Then for doing PhD in cosmology attend
Trinity Hall at Cambridge University.
In 1968 he
became a member of Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge. He spent his next few
years in doing his research. In 1973, he published his first, highly-technical
book, The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time, with G.F.R. Ellis. In 1974, he
became a celebrity within the scientific world due to his research. In 1974 the
Royal Society elected him one of its youngest fellows. In 1977, he became professor of gravitational
physics at Cambridge. In 1979 he was appointed to Cambridge’s Lucasian
professorship of mathematics, a post once held by Isaac Newton. In 1982, Hawking
was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) and in 1989 he became a
Companion of Honor.
He also
received the Copley Medal from the Royal Society in 2006 and the U.S.
Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. He was a great author who wrote many
quotes on various topics. One of his best quotes is given below,
“I have
noticed that even people, who claim everything is predetermined and that we can
do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”
On 14th
March 2018, Hawking died because of to the disease that was supposed to have
killed him more than 50 years earlier.