11 Things That You Should Know About Stephen Hawking's Life - The Expansive Life of Stephen Hawking.
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11 Things That You Should Know About Stephen Hawking's Life - The Expansive Life of Stephen Hawking.
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1. Stephen Hawking’s discovery that black holes are not really black and that they would eventually leak radiation and particles before exploding and disappearing turned scientists’ understanding of them upside down.
2. Dr. Hawking in 1977. As a graduate student in 1963, he learned he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neuromuscular wasting disease also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and was given less than three years to live.
3. Dr. Hawking won millions of fans through his book “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes,” published in 1988. It has sold more than 10 million copies.
4. Dr. Hawking and the former Jane Wilde, around 1990. They married in 1965. By his own account, his marriage gave him “something to live for”; he also had to find a job, which gave him an incentive to work seriously toward his doctorate.
5. Dr. Hawking traveled the globe to scientific meetings, visiting every continent; wrote best-selling books about his work; and was not above appearing on television shows. He was in four episodes of “The Simpsons.”
6. Dr. Hawking also appeared in other television shows including “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” shown here in 1993, and “The Big Bang Theory.”
7. Dr. Hawking’s first marriage ended in divorce in 1990. In 1995, he married Elaine Mason, a nurse who had cared for him since 1985.
8. Dr. Hawking held a lecture on “The Origin of the Universe” in Berlin in 2005. He had lost the ability to speak after a bout of pneumonia in 1985, but was able to communicate by using a computer program that allowed him to choose words that were sent to a speech synthesizer that vocalized for him, albeit with an American accent.
9. Dr. Hawking pushed the limits in his professional and personal life. At 65, he took part in a zero-gravity flight aboard a plane that flies a roller-coaster trajectory to produce fleeting periods of weightlessness.
10. Dr. Hawking with his daughter, Lucy, and Christophe Galfard, a French physicist and writer, in his office at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, England, in 2007. Dr. Hawking and his daughter wrote a trilogy of children’s books, the first titled “George’s Secret Key to the Universe.”
11. Dr. Hawking in 2005. Among his many honors, he was named a commander of the British Empire in 1982. The only thing lacking was the Nobel Prize, and his explanation for this was characteristically pithy: “The Nobel is given only for theoretical work that has been confirmed by observation. It is very, very difficult to observe the things I have worked on.”
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1. Stephen Hawking’s discovery that black holes are not really black and that they would eventually leak radiation and particles before exploding and disappearing turned scientists’ understanding of them upside down.
2. Dr. Hawking in 1977. As a graduate student in 1963, he learned he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neuromuscular wasting disease also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and was given less than three years to live.
3. Dr. Hawking won millions of fans through his book “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes,” published in 1988. It has sold more than 10 million copies.
4. Dr. Hawking and the former Jane Wilde, around 1990. They married in 1965. By his own account, his marriage gave him “something to live for”; he also had to find a job, which gave him an incentive to work seriously toward his doctorate.
5. Dr. Hawking traveled the globe to scientific meetings, visiting every continent; wrote best-selling books about his work; and was not above appearing on television shows. He was in four episodes of “The Simpsons.”
6. Dr. Hawking also appeared in other television shows including “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” shown here in 1993, and “The Big Bang Theory.”
7. Dr. Hawking’s first marriage ended in divorce in 1990. In 1995, he married Elaine Mason, a nurse who had cared for him since 1985.
8. Dr. Hawking held a lecture on “The Origin of the Universe” in Berlin in 2005. He had lost the ability to speak after a bout of pneumonia in 1985, but was able to communicate by using a computer program that allowed him to choose words that were sent to a speech synthesizer that vocalized for him, albeit with an American accent.
9. Dr. Hawking pushed the limits in his professional and personal life. At 65, he took part in a zero-gravity flight aboard a plane that flies a roller-coaster trajectory to produce fleeting periods of weightlessness.
10. Dr. Hawking with his daughter, Lucy, and Christophe Galfard, a French physicist and writer, in his office at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, England, in 2007. Dr. Hawking and his daughter wrote a trilogy of children’s books, the first titled “George’s Secret Key to the Universe.”
11. Dr. Hawking in 2005. Among his many honors, he was named a commander of the British Empire in 1982. The only thing lacking was the Nobel Prize, and his explanation for this was characteristically pithy: “The Nobel is given only for theoretical work that has been confirmed by observation. It is very, very difficult to observe the things I have worked on.”