Stephen William Hawking
Stephen William Hawking is the full name of Stephen Hawking born on 8 January 1942. Hawking has a rare early-onset, slow-progressing form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as motor neurone disease and because of that has gradually paralysed him over the decades. He communicates with people using a single cheek muscle attached to a speech-generating device.He was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge. His scientific works are many like a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. Hawking was the first to set forth a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.
Other important work by Hawking relates to the interpretation of cosmological observations and to the design of gravitational wave detectors.
Hawking received the 2015 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences shared with Viatcheslav Mukhanov for discovering that the galaxies were formed from quantum fluctuations in the early Universe.
Other important work by Hawking relates to the interpretation of cosmological observations and to the design of gravitational wave detectors.
Hawking received the 2015 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences shared with Viatcheslav Mukhanov for discovering that the galaxies were formed from quantum fluctuations in the early Universe.
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