Stephen Hawking

Stephen William Hawking

1942 - 2018 aged 76 (interred in Westminster Abbey)

Hawking lived with a form of motor neurone disease for over fifty years and communicated through a speech-generating device after he lost his ability to speak

Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge

Fellow of the Royal Society

Presidential Medal of Freedom

Scientific works include …

Gravitational singularity theorems (with Roger Penrose)

Predicted that black holes emit radiation, now called Hawking radiation.

Set out a theory of cosmology explained by uniting relativity and quantum mechanics

Hawking authored many popular books on Science including:

‘A Brief History of Time’

‘The Universe in a Nutshell’

‘On the Shoulders of Giants’