Stephen Hawking
His Life and Vestige 
Stephen Hawking
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Stephen William Hawking (born 8 January 1942)
is an English theoretical physicist and
cosmologist, whose scientific books and public
appearances have made him an academic
celebrity.
He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal
Society of Arts , a lifetime member of the
Pontifical Academy of Sciencesi
 In 2009 was awarded the Presidential
Medal of freedom, the highest civilian
award in the United States.
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Hawking was the Lucasian Professor of
Mathematics at the University of
Cambridge for thirty years, taking up the
post in 1979 and retiring on 1 October 2009
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He is also a Fellow of Gonville and Cais
College Cambridge and a Distinguished
Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute
for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario
Early life and education
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Stephen Hawking was born on 8 January
1942 to Dr. Frank Hawking, a research
biologist, and Isobel Hawking. He had two
younger sisters, Philippa and Mary, and an
adopted brother, Edward
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Though Hawking's parents were living in
North London, they moved to Oxford while
his mother was pregnant with Stephen,
desiring a safer location for the birth of their
first child
Career in theoretical physics
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Almost as soon as he arrived at
Cambridge, he started developing
symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
a type of motor neurone disease which
would cost him almost all neuromuscular
control
Illness
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Stephen Hawking is severely disabled by a
motor neurone disease known as
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
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Hawking's illness is markedly different from
typical ALS in that his form of ALS would
make for the most protracted case ever
documented.
Awards and honours
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1975 Eddington Medal
1976 Hughes Medal of the Royal Society
1979 Albert Einstein Medal
1981 Franklin Medal
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1982 Order of the British Empire
(Commander)
1985 Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical
Society
1986 Member of the Pontifical Academy of
Sciences
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1988 Wolf Prize in Physics
1989 Prince of Asturias Awards in Concord
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1989 Companion of Honour
1999 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the
American Physical Society[46]
2003 Michelson Morley Award of Case
Western Reserve University
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2006 Copley Medal of the Royal Society[47]
2008 Fonseca Price of the University of
Santiago de Compostela
2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the
highest civilian honour in the United States
Films and series
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A Brief History of Time (1991)
Stephen Hawking's Universe (1997)
Horizon: The Hawking Paradox (2005
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Masters of Science Fiction (2007)
Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe
(2008)
Into The Universe with Stephen
Hawking(2010)