Stephen Hawking

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Stephen William haWking
•theoretical
phySiciSt
•coSmologiSt
•author

3. childhood
•Born January 8, 1942
oxford, england, uk
•eldeSt child of 4, 2
SiSterS 1 Brother
•parentS attended
oxford univerSity
•lived in camBridge,
england
•not an exceptional
Student
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Education
• attEndEd St. albanS HigH ScHool.
• 1959 won ScHolarSHip to attEndEd oxford
univErSity
• graduatEd in 1962 witH b.a. from oxford
• StudiEd undEr frEd HoylE at trinity Hall,
cambridgE
• rEcEivEd pHd in coSmology in 1966

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marriagE, family,
diagnoSiS
• 1963 diagnoSEd witH amyotropHic latEral
SclEroSiS (alS) bEttEr known aS lou
gEHrig’S diSEaSE
• 1965 marriEd JanE wildE
• 1967 Son robErt Hawking born
• 1970 daugHtEr lucy Hawking born
• 1979 Son timotHy Hawking born

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Best known For
•Hawking Radiation
•Linking Relativity with Quantum mechanics which
contributed to the Grand Unified Theory
•Book “The theory of everything”

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ContriBution to sCienCe
• singularities in
gravitational
Collapse
• BlaCk hole MeChaniCs
• theoretiCal
prediCtions aBout
BlaCk holes
• hawking radiation
• wave FunCtion oF the
universe

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awards & honors
• 1966 Adams Prize
• 1975 Eddington Medal
• 1976 Hughes Medal of the Royal Society
• 1978 Albert Einstein Award
• 1979 Albert Einstein Medal
• 1981 Franklin Medal
• 1982 Order of the British Empire (Commander)
• 1985 Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
• 1986 Member of the Pontifical Academy of Science
• 1987 Dirac Medal of the Institute of Physics

12. awards & honors
• 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics
• 1989 Prince of Asturias Awards in Concord
• 1999 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American
Physical Society
• 2003 Michelson Morley Award of Case Western
Reserve University
• 2006 Copley Medal of the Royal Society
• 2008 Fonseca Price of the University of Santiago De
Compostela
• 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom
(highest civilian honor in the United States)
• 2012 Robert A Heinlein Memorial Award
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