Biography-Sthephen Hawking
Born: January 8 1942.
Oxford, United Kingdom
Sons: Lucy Hawking, Timothy Hawking and Robert Hawking.
Ocupation: Theorical Physicist, Cosmologist.
The parents of Sthephen Hawing moved from London to Oxford during the II World War, to have a safer life away from the war. His parents were: Isobel and Frank Hawking; His mother Isobel was scottish and had earned her way into Oxford University in the 1930s, a time when few womens were able to go to collage; and his father Frank was a respected medical researcher with a speciality in tropical diseases, who wanted Stephen to study and get interest in medicine but in a early age he showed his way to science and the unknonw of the sky.
During his early academic experiences, Hawking wasn´t an excepcional student, because durind his first year at St. Albans Shcool he was thirs from the bottom of his class; he was more keen to pursuits outside the shool such as creating games and when he created, with his friends a computer that was made of recycled parts for solving rudimentary mathematical equations.
He entered collage at Oxford University at the age of 17 years old, where he wanted to estudied Mathematics, although this career was not available at the University, so he presude Physiscs instead. Where he was awareded a first class honours degree in Natural Science. Then Stephen went on to Cambrige to do research in Cosmology, were in 1963, in his 21st birthday, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He wasn´t expected to live more than two years, but he defeated all expectetions completing his doctorate and finishing his Ph. D., but also forging new roads into the understanding of the universe and standing out with his theories and books, such as:
Theory of Singularity: A sigularity is a place in either space or time at which quiantity becomes infinite (without an end). In which Hawink based to explain that the universe was originated by a singularity.
"A Brief History of Time": Which contains information about the cration of the Big Bang to Black Holes. It sold over a million copies and was listed as the best-selling nonfiction book.
"Black holes and Baby Universes": In this publication Hawking introduces the concept of "Baby universe", which are self-contained universes that are separates from our region of the universe. Object that fall into black holes would enter baby universes, to emerge from another black hole.
As the disease spread into all his body, hawking started to lost less and less mobile focing him to use wheelchair. In 1985 the situation got wrost thanks an emergency tracheotomy, which caused his total loss of speech, as consequence he use a speech-generating device to comunitcate with others. During this process Jane Wilde, who married her in 1965, was his best motivation and hope; giving him three children, but due conflicts between them they got divorce. Hawking remarried in 1995 but divorces in 2006.
After finishing his Ph. D. he becomed a Research fellow and later on a Professorial Fellow at Genville and Caius Collage. Then after living the institute of Astronomy in 1973, he was in the Departament of Applied Mathematics and Theorical Physics in 1979 and held the post of Lucasiasn Professor of Mathematics from 1979 until 2009. But he is still active part of Cambridge, where he retains an office. His title is now the Dennis Stanton Avery and Sally Tsui-Avery Director of Research at the Departament of applied Mathematics and Theorical Physics.
"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all"-Stephen Hawking.
Sources:
- Hawking. (S/f). Stephen Hawking. Recovered from: http://www.hawking.org.uk/about-stephen.html
- Redd, N. (2015). Stephen Hawking Biography. Recoveed from: http://www.space.com/15923-stephen-hawking.html
