Stephen Hawking
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| Born | January 8, 1942 (age 66) 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) |
Stephen William Hawking, CH CBE FRS (born January 8 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 is a professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge (a position that Isaac Newton once had[1]).
He suffers from ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, and because of that he can not move or talk very well. The illness has gotten worse over the years and he is now almost completely paralyzed. 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 0521099064
- 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 0762419229
[change] Popular
- A Brief History of Time, (Bantam Press 1988) ISBN 055305340X
- Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays, (Bantam Books 1993) ISBN 0553374117
- The Universe in a Nutshell, (Bantam Press 2001) ISBN 055380202X
- On The Shoulders of Giants. The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy, (Running Press 2002) ISBN 076241698X
- A Briefer History of Time, (Bantam Books 2005) ISBN 0553804367
[change] Children's books
- George's Secret Key To The Universe, with Lucy Hawking (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing 2007)
Note: On Hawking's website, he wikt:criticises the wikt:unauthorized wikt:publication of The Theory of Everything and asks buyers to boycott the book.
[change] Notes
- ↑ Stephen Hawking's Universe (HTML). PBS Online. Retrieved on 11 June 2008.
