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Published on Nov 19, 2015

Stephen Hawking Through The Years

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Stephen Hawking

By: Matt Wenger
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BIO

Born On The 8th Of January, In Oxford, England (1942).
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Hawking's Disability

  • Hawking suffers from a early-onset, slow-progressing disease, Lou Gehrig's disease.
  • Known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
  • Scientifically known as motor neurone disease.
  • This disease has gradually immobilized him over the years of his life.
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About His LIfe

  • Stephen Hawking has attended multiple prestigious universities.
  • University of Cambridge (PhD)
  • Perimeter Institute For Theoretical Physics
  • California Institute Of Technology
  • He has also attended a Alma mater school: University Of Oxford (Ba).
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Positive and Influential Changes

  • Stephen Hawking has proved to some degrees the theory of time travel.
  • Stephen Hawking has provided a lot of valuable information to Nasa and colleges that teach about astrophysics.
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Changes That Have Benefited The World

  • PhD in Astrophysics.
  • He proves that you can succeed with disabilities.
  • Has a strong and believable argument for the theory of time travel.
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Early Years

  • His father, a well-known researcher in tropical medicine, urged his son to seek a career in medicine.
  • Hawking found biology and medicine did not satisfy his education.
  • Hawking pursued his education then, in mathematics and astrophysics.
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Mid Years and his career

  • Hawking was married to Jane Wilde on July 14th (1965)
  • Began collaborating with Penrose and proposed theories.
  • Proposed the theory that the Universe started as a singularity.
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Present

  • Hawking has supervised 39 successful PhD students. (Cambridge and Oxford)
  • Believes that the Universe had not one unique initial state but many different ones, and therefore that it is inappropriate to formulate a theory that predicts the Universe's current configuration from one particular initial state.
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Works cited

  • "Higgs Boson." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 26 Apr. 2015. Web. 26 Apr. 2015.
  • "Stephen Hawking - Home." Stephen Hawking - Home. Lucy Hawking, 29 Apr. 2015. Web. 29 Apr. 2015.
  • "Stephen Hawking - Home." Stephen Hawking - Home. Lucy Hawking, 29 Apr. 2015. Web. 29 Apr. 2015.
  • "University College, Oxford." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 29 Apr. 2015. Web. 29 Apr. 2015.
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