Stephan Hawking | Scientist | Motivation | Short Introduction of Stephan, must read it.

  Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 (300 years  after the death of Galileo) in Oxford, England. His parents' house was  in north London, but during the second world war, Oxford was considered a  safer place to have babies. When he was eight, his family moved to St.  Albans, a town about 20 miles north of London. At the age of eleven,  Stephen went to St. Albans School and then on to University College,  Oxford; his father's old college. Stephen wanted to study Mathematics,  although his father would have preferred medicine. Mathematics was not  available at University College, so he pursued Physics instead. After  three years and not very much work, he was awarded a first class honours  degree in Natural Science. 

  Stephen then went on to Cambridge to do research in Cosmology,  there being no one working in that area in Oxford at the time. His  supervisor was Denis Sciama, although he had hoped to get Fred Hoyle who  was working in Cambridge.After gaining his Ph.D. he became first a  Research Fellow and later on a Professorial Fellow at Gonville and Caius  College. After leaving the Institute of Astronomy in 1973, Stephen came  to the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics in  1979, and held the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1979  until 2009. The chair was founded in 1663 with money left in the will of  the Reverend Henry Lucas who had been the Member of Parliament for the  University. It was first held by Isaac Barrow and then in 1669 by Isaac  Newton. Stephen is still an active part of Cambridge University and  retains an office at the Department for Applied Maths and Theoretical  Physics. His title is now the Dennis Stanton Avery and Sally Tsui  Wong-Avery Director of Research at the Department of Applied Mathematics  and Theoretical Physics. 

 Stephen Hawking has worked on the basic laws which govern the  universe. With Roger Penrose he showed that Einstein's General Theory of  Relativity implied space and time would have a beginning in the Big  Bang and an end in black holes. These results indicated that it was  necessary to unify General Relativity with Quantum Theory, the other  great Scientific development of the first half of the 20th Century. One  consequence of such a unification that he discovered was that black  holes should not be completely black, but rather should emit radiation  and eventually evaporate and disappear. Another conjecture is that the  universe has no edge or boundary in imaginary time. This would imply  that the way the universe began was completely determined by the laws of  science.
  His many publications include The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime  with G F R Ellis, General Relativity: An Einstein Centenary Survey, with  W Israel, and 300 Years of Gravity, with W Israel. Among the popular  books Stephen Hawking has published are his best seller A Brief History  of Time, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays, The Universe  in a Nutshell, The Grand Design and My Brief History.
  Professor Hawking has twelve honorary degrees. He was awarded the CBE  in 1982, and was made a Companion of Honour in 1989. He is the recipient  of many awards, medals and prizes, is a Fellow of The Royal Society and  a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences. 

  Stephen was diagnosed with ALS, a form of Motor Neurone  Disease, shortly after his 21st birthday. In spite of being wheelchair  bound and dependent on a computerised voice system for communication  Stephen Hawking continues to combine family life (he has three children  and three grandchildren), and his research into theoretical physics  together with an extensive programme of travel and public lectures. He  still hopes to make it into space one day.
 

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