STEPHEN HAWKING

A BRIEF STORY OF HIS LIFE:

Stephen Hawking was born in Cambridge on January 8, 1942 and he died on March 14, 2018. He was a famous English physicist that had ASL. He had three children: Lucy, Robert and Tim Hawking with his first wife, Jane Wilde Hawking. He divorced his first wife and then he married his caregiver but he didn’t have luck and they got divorced. In the end, Jane cared for him. He wrote a lot of books. For example: A brief History of Time (1988); Nature of Space and Time (1996); The Universe in a Nutshell (2001); The Theory of Everything (2002) and The Origin of (Almost Everything) (2016). He was a genius.

THE CHILDHOOD OF STEPHEN HAWKING:

Stephen Hawking was born when his family as well as the whole nation was going trough a financial crisis because of the ongoing World War 2. He was the youngest of the four kids of his family.
He attended St.Albans school, but he was never a brilliant student. He was more interested in what happened outside the classroom, and spent his time and energy inventing new things.

He was a normal boy.

He could go running or ride a bike.

He used to interact with other children

 

STEPHEN HAWKING’S CAREER:

At school he loved Maths. His teachers said that he was not interested in other subjects, only in Maths. His father wanted him to attend University College at Oxford, but they didn’t have maths so he couldn’t study that. Instead he studied physics. When he was doing the master he was diagnosed ASL (ELA in Spanish). For the latter half of his life, Hawking couldn’t move or speak, in fact the only part of his body which he could move were his eyes.. To speak, he used a voice-generating device which was built at Cambridge and relied on the vibrations of his cheek to translate his words. His scientific works included a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. Hawking was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.

Stephen Hawking’s main contributions to the field of physics and cosmology lie in the studies of:

  • The Origins of the Universe
  • Time
  • The Big Bang Theory
  • Gravitational and Spacetime Singularities
  • Black Hole Radiation
  • A Universe Without Spacetime Boundaries
  • Atheism
  • The High Likelihood of the Existence of Extraterrestrial Life

But why do we say that he was a genius when we talk about him?

What we think is that he never gave up. He was a fighter because when he was diagnosed ASL they said to him that he would die in some years and he lived a lot more than that and when he lost all the power he was still doing discoveries and working on projects. He could have stayed at home complaining about his disease but he didn’t. Everybody must take him as an example to follow.

Jaume Luengo

Miquel Rigo

Rida Zannouti