Early life
From the beginning of his life, he had been a mysterious child and he was born on 8th January 1942, exactly three hundreds year after the death of famous astronomer Galileo Galilei. And often was called the father of –observational astronomy. He was born in Oxford to frank and Isolbil Eileen Hawking. He had a happy childhood with his siblings and most of the time spent in the Highgate. He was studied at Oxford Universityand he was the topper of his class. His classmates used to call him the Einstien of the class.
Graduation from Oxford and move to Cambridge
In the 1960s the Stephen agreed to apply to the college of his father in the university college of Oxford. His father was a great medicine specialist and he wanted the study of medicine by Stephen but, Stephen never showed his interest in the medical stream as he always showed his inclination and hard passion in mathematics hence he choose mathematics and Physics at Oxford.
At the age of 17, he went to Oxford and after discussing from father he agreed to take the natural sciences as the Subject. In 1962 he went to Trinity College at CambridgeUniversity and the fact to go there was he told the examiners that if they would give him the first position award degree he will leave Oxford and if they will give the second position degree he will stay in Oxford and study here but as expected by him he was received the first position degree and he went to the Cambridge.
In 1965, Stephen applied for the fellowship at the Gonville & Caius College and he was awarded the fellowship and he remained the fellow of that college for the rest of his life. He was settled in the day-to-day life in science and died on March 208.
Researches and contribution in the science
Stephen primarily worked in the field of general relativity and particularly in the physics of Blackholes. In 1971 he suggested and gave the formation of the earth with the help of Big Bang theory.
In 1974, he proposed that by the predictions of quantum theory, Black holes emit subatomic particles. His work is memorable in the part of the classical thermodynamics and quantum theory and showed the relation between them.
- Popular books of Stephen Hawking
- A brief history of time
- Black holes and baby Universes and other essays
- The universe in a nutshell
- On the shoulders of Giants
- God created the integers
- My brief history
- Brief Answers to the big questions
Death
Stephen died at the age of 76 at his home in Cambridge on 14 March 2018 and his private funeral take place on 31 March 2018. His family stated that he died peacefully.
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