Stephen Hawking
Date: 1988
Stephen Hawking can easily be named in one breath with scientists like Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. Hawking was a brilliant physicist, mathematician, cosmologist and authors and is considered to be one of the most influential scientists of all-time. He did a lot of significant discoveries throughout his career that changed the way we look at the universe forever.
During his time as a student at the University of Oxford, Hawking experienced increasing clumsiness and problems with his motor functions. In 1963 he was diagnosed with ALS. A fatal disease that affects the motor neurones in the brain and spinal cord. The doctors gave him a life expectancy of only two years. Hawking refused to give up but slowly lost the ability to walk, speak or move at all until his entire body was paralyzed.
Because of the loss of his ability to speak, Hawking got a revolutionary speech computer attached to his automated wheelchair, which allowed him to speak through the computer by selecting words and phrases.
Stephen Hawking can easily be named in one breath with scientists like Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. Hawking was a brilliant physicist, mathematician, cosmologist and authors and is considered to be one of the most influential scientists of all-time. He did a lot of significant discoveries throughout his career that changed the way we look at the universe forever.
During his time as a student at the University of Oxford, Hawking experienced increasing clumsiness and problems with his motor functions. In 1963 he was diagnosed with ALS. A fatal disease that affects the motor neurones in the brain and spinal cord. The doctors gave him a life expectancy of only two years. Hawking refused to give up but slowly lost the ability to walk, speak or move at all until his entire body was paralyzed.
Because of the loss of his ability to speak, Hawking got a revolutionary speech computer attached to his automated wheelchair, which allowed him to speak through the computer by selecting words and phrases.
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In 1988 Stephen Hawking publishes a book called "A Brief History Of Time". This book (completely written with to use of his special computer), Hawking explains extremely difficult topics like the Big Bang, black holes and the passage of time in a truly easy and simplistic way. This book became an international best-seller (even today). Although Stephen was already a legend within the scientific community, this book made him famous throughout the world.
Later in his life he wrote books books for children together with his daughter Lucy. These books are a way to introduce children to the wonderful world of science. The first one is called "George's secret key to the universe". Stephen Hawking died in 2018, at the unbelievable age of 76, after living with A.l.S. for more than 50 years. |
This is the front cover art for the book A Brief History of Time written by Stephen Hawking. The book cover art copyright is believed to belong to the publisher, Bantam Books, or the cover artist
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If you would like to more about Stephen Hawking his life. The movie "The Theory of Everything" is highly recommended.
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Did you know?
That although Stephen Hawking was British, the first accent created by his speech computer was American. Although later technology allowed him to change his accent to British, he never changed it.
That although Stephen Hawking was British, the first accent created by his speech computer was American. Although later technology allowed him to change his accent to British, he never changed it.
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Stephen Hawking was a professor at Cambridge University.
Stephen Hawking was a professor at Cambridge University.
