Born
Stephen William Hawking
8 January 1942
Oxford, England
Died
14 March 2018 (aged 76)
Cambridge, England
Education
St Albans School, Hertfordshire
Alma mater
University of Oxford (BA)
University of Cambridge (MA, PhD)
Known for
Hawking radiation
Penrose–Hawking theorems
Bekenstein–Hawking formula
Hawking energy
Gibbons–Hawking ansatz
Gibbons–Hawking effect
Gibbons–Hawking space
Gibbons–Hawking–York boundary term
Thorne–Hawking–Preskill bet
Spouse(s)
Jane Wilde (m. 1965; div. 1995)
Elaine Mason (m. 1995; div. 2006)
Children
3, including Lucy
Awards
Adams Prize (1966)
Eddington Medal (1975)
Maxwell Medal and Prize (1976)
Heineman Prize (1976)
Hughes Medal (1976)
Albert Einstein Award (1978)
RAS Gold Medal (1985)
Dirac Medal (1987)
Wolf Prize (1988)
Prince of Asturias Award (1989)
Andrew Gemant Award (1998)
Naylor Prize and Lectureship (1999)
Lilienfeld Prize (1999)
Albert Medal (Royal Society of Arts) (1999)
Copley Medal (2006)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009)
Fundamental Physics Prize (2012)
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2015)
Scientific career
Fields
General relativity
Quantum gravity
Institutions
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
California Institute of Technology
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Thesis Properties of Expanding Universes (1966)
Doctoral advisor Dennis Sciama
Other academic advisors Robert Berman
Doctoral students
Bruce Allen
Raphael Bousso
Bernard Carr
Fay Dowker
Christophe Galfard
Gary Gibbons
Thomas Hertog
Raymond Laflamme
Don Page
Malcolm Perry
Wu ZhongchaoHawking
Hawking with President Obama in 2009
Hawking taking a zero-gravity flight in a reduced-gravity aircraft, 2007
Hawking in the simpson character
Hawking contracted motor neurone disease in 1963 and was given two years to live but he went on to study at Cambridge and became one of the most brilliant physician.
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