Stephen Hawking
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| Born | January 8, 1942 Oxford, England |
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| Residence | England |
| Nationality | British |
| Field | Mathematics, Physics |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford University of Cambridge |
| Academic advisor | Dennis Sciama |
| Notable students | Bruce Allen Fay Dowker Malcolm Perry Bernard Carr Gary Gibbons |
| Known for | Black holes Theoretical cosmology Quantum gravity |
| Notable prizes | Prince of Asturias Award (1989) Copley Medal (2006) |
Prof. Dr. Stephen Hawking, CH CBE FRS (born 8 January 1942) is an English theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is one of the world's leading theoretical physicists. A theoretical physicist is someone who uses information from experiments to make predictions about the world. Hawking writes many science books for the public, or the people who are not scientists.
Hawking was a professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge (a position that Isaac Newton once had).[1] He retired on 1 October 2009.[2]
He has ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), and because of that he can not move or talk very well. The illness has worsened over the years and he is now almost completely paralysed. He uses a wheelchair to move, and an Intel computer to talk for him.
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[change] Selected publications
[change] Technical
- Singularities in Collapsing Stars and Expanding Universes with D. W. Sciama, 1969 Comments on Astrophysics and Space Physics Vol 1 #1
- The Nature of Space and Time with Roger Penrose, foreword by Michael Atiyah, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-691-05084-8
- The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime with George Ellis, 1973 ISBN 0-521-09906-4
- The Large, the Small, and the Human Mind, (with Abner Shimony, Nancy Cartwright, and Roger Penrose), Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-521-56330-5 (hardback), ISBN 0-521-65538-2 (paperback), Canto edition: ISBN 0-521-78572-3
- Information Loss in Black Holes, Cambridge University Press, 2005
- God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History, Running Press, 2005 ISBN 0-7624-1922-9
[change] Popular
- A Brief History of Time, (Bantam Press 1988) ISBN 0-553-05340-X
- Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays, (Bantam Books 1993) ISBN 0-553-37411-7
- The Universe in a Nutshell, (Bantam Press 2001) ISBN 0-553-80202-X
- On The Shoulders of Giants. The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy, (Running Press 2002) ISBN 0-7624-1698-X
- A Briefer History of Time, (Bantam Books 2005) ISBN 0-553-80436-7
[change] Children's books
- George's Secret Key To The Universe, with Lucy Hawking (Simon & Taylor Blevins Publishing 2007)
Note: On Hawking's website, he criticises the unauthorized publication of The Theory of Everything and asks buyers to boycott the book.
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