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Stephen Hawking: A Life From Beginning to End
I remember reading "A Brief History of Time" and being in awe that I could understand; he explained things in such a clear way. It is interesting that he could be understood only by scientists with a physics degree (or two under their belts). However, his goal was to make everyone part of understanding the majesty of science.
Hawking's personal life was no less interesting than his scientific pursuits. I was not aware that he even had a wife, much less than the fact that he had two (and 3 children). Hawking earned so many awards for his work; it looks like he was compensated for his loss of physical abilities with lots of accolades and worldwide recognition. I thought this book brought a rare insight into a complex man's life and work.
Stephen Hawking: A Biography
So here's our first hero Dr. Stephen Hawking. One of the rarest legends from the field of science who are eqaully the other celebrities. Basically you can consider this article as more of short insight from the goggles of this book in Hawking's life. As feel I am not the person who can review or comment on Hawking Sir's work.
So the he was born and brought up in Oxford exactly after 300 years after the death of Galileo. So he was the eldest son in his family. And went to special school during childhood as was not abled to learn at the regular pace. He always wanted to know how everything works and then try to control it accordingly. This hobby brought him into field of science and soon he started his college in Cambridge. During the college days the symptoms for his disease (ALS- a motor neuron disease. Causing muscles to be immovable.) started to show up. But as they go unrecognised by the doctors he had to face a serious impact as it was diagnosed later.
Rising from the depression from his diagnosis he started to work on science and later developed intrest particularly in cosmology. He reasearched on singularities (later known as black holes) and stated it's basic properties. Also worked on black hole thermodynamics and the ration coming from black holes due to rotational energy was named Hawking radiation.
He wanted to unify the final theories of albert einstein (general theory of relativity ) for macroscopic universe and (Quantum thoery) for microscopic universe and purpose a single theory as a whole. He was open to all the new theories which can unify this some of the theories he worked on were supersymetry, quantum gravity, the string theory , the M- theory. During his life he faced so many struggles due to his disease, accidents,
Stephen Hawking
(1942-2018)
Who Was Stephen Hawking?
Stephen Hawking was a British scientist, professor and author who performed groundbreaking work in physics and cosmology, and whose books helped to make science accessible to everyone.
At age 21, while studying cosmology at the University of Cambridge, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Part of his life story was depicted in the 2014 film The Theory of Everything.
Early Life
Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford, England. His birthday was also the 300th anniversary of the death of Galileo — long a source of pride for the noted physicist.
The eldest of Frank and Isobel Hawking's four children, Hawking was born into a family of thinkers.
His Scottish mother earned her way into Oxford University in the 1930s — a time when few women were able to go to college. His father, another Oxford graduate, was a respected medical researcher with a specialty in tropical diseases.
Hawking's birth came at an inopportune time for his parents, who didn't have much money. The political climate was also tense, as England was dealing with World War II and the onslaught of German bombs in London, where the couple was living as Frank Hawking undertook research in medicine.
In an effort to seek a safer place, Isobel returned to Oxford to have the couple's first child. The Hawkings would go on to have two other children, Mary and Philippa. And their second son, Edward, was adopted in 1956.
The Hawkings, as one close family friend described them, were an "eccentric" bunch. Dinner was often eaten in silence, each of the Hawkings intently reading a book. The family car was an old London taxi, and their home in St. Albans was a three-story fixer-upper that never quite got fixed. The Hawkings also housed bees in the basement and produced fireworks in the greenhouse.
In 1950, Hawking's father took work to manage the Division of Parasitology at the National Institute of Medical Re Kitty Ferguson has been writing and lecturing about science and scientists for over two decades. Kitty is the author of eight books; her 1991 biography Stephen Hawking: Quest for the Theory of Everything was written with Hawking’s encouragement and help and was an international bestseller. She also was a consultant for Hawking s book The Universe in a Nutshell. Her most recent biography, Stephen Hawking His Life and Work/An Unfettered Mind, has been translated into 30 languages. Kitty has been interviewed by Forbes magazine, PBS’s ‘Fresh Air with Terry Gross’, the ‘News Hour with Jim Lehrer’, and the BBC. She lectures widely in North America and Europe, and her appearances have included the Goddard Space Flight Center, the Hayden Planetarium in NYC, the Nobel Peace Prize Forum, and many universities. Kitty and her husband divide their time between Cambridge, England and South Carolina.Pavilion
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