Hola amigos!

El día de hoy vengo hablarles de un científico de la actualidad y que

fue muy reconocido por su trabajo con los agujeros negros y la relatividad. Un
científico que admiro mucho pues a pesar de que a sus 21 años fue diagnosticado con
una enfermedad la cual hacia que los nervios que controlaban sus músculos se
cerraran impidiéndole que se mueva, logro salir adelante y aporto mucho a la
ciencia con sus investigaciones y descubrimientos.
Sin duda una verdadera prueba de que el que quiere salir adelante lo hace a pesar
de sus limitaciones, es por eso que lo admiro mucho, y el día de hoy les contare su
historia.
Su nombre Stephen Hawking

Inglish
Hello friends! Today I come to talk to you about a scientist of today who was very
well known for his work with black holes and relativity. A scientist that I admire
a lot because even though at 21 years old he was diagnosed with a disease that made
the nerves that controlled his muscles close, preventing him from moving, he
managed to get ahead and contributed a lot to science with his research and
discoveries.
Without a doubt a true proof that the one who wants to get ahead does it in spite
of his limitations, that is why I admire him a lot, and today I will tell you his
story.
His name Stephen Hawking

Who Was He?

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.
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.
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.

Early in his academic life, Hawking, while recognized as bright, was not an
exceptional student. During his first year at St. Albans School, he was third from
the bottom of his class.

But Hawking focused on pursuits outside of school; he loved board games, and he and
a few close friends created new games of their own. During his teens, Hawking,
along with several friends, constructed a computer out of recycled parts for
solving rudimentary mathematical equations.

Hawking entered University College at the University of Oxford at the age of 17.
Although he expressed a desire to study mathematics, Oxford didn't offer a degree
in that specialty, so Hawking gravitated toward physics and, more specifically,
cosmology.

At age 21, while studying cosmology at the University of Cambridge, he was

diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
In a very simple sense, the nerves that controlled his muscles were shutting down.
At the time, doctors gave him two and a half years to live.

But when his father took notice of the condition, he took Hawking to see a doctor.
For the next two weeks, the 21-year-old college student made his home at a medical
clinic, where he underwent a series of tests.
"They took a muscle sample from my arm, stuck electrodes into me, and injected some
radio-opaque fluid into my spine, and watched it going up and down with X-rays, as
they tilted the bed," he once said. "After all that, they didn't tell me what I
had, except that it was not multiple sclerosis, and that I was an atypical case."

Eventually, however, doctors did diagnose Hawking with the early stages of ALS. It
was devastating news for him and his family, but a few events prevented him from
becoming completely despondent.

The first of these came while Hawking was still in the hospital. There, he shared a
room with a boy suffering from leukemia. Relative to what his roommate was going
through, Hawking later reflected, his situation seemed more tolerable.

Not long after he was released from the hospital, Hawking had a dream that he was
going to be executed. He said this dream made him realize that there were still
things to do with his life.

In a sense, Hawking's disease helped turn him into the noted scientist he became.
Before the diagnosis, Hawking hadn't always focused on his studies. "Before my
condition was diagnosed, I had been very bored with life," he said. "There had not
seemed to be anything worth doing."

With the sudden realization that he might not even live long enough to earn his
Ph.D., Hawking poured himself into his work and research.
In 1974, Hawking's research turned him into a celebrity within the scientific world
when he showed that black holes aren't the information vacuums that scientists had
thought they were.

In simple terms, Hawking demonstrated that matter, in the form of radiation, can
escape the gravitational force of a collapsed star. Another young cosmologist,
Roger Penrose, had earlier discovered groundbreaking findings about the fate of
stars and the creation of black holes, which tapped into Hawking's own fascination
with how the universe began.

In 1992, Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris released a documentary about

Hawking's life, aptly titled A Brief History of Time. Other TV and movie
appearances included:

'The Big Bang Theory'

In 2012, Hawking showed off his humorous side on American television, making a
guest appearance on The Big Bang Theory. Playing himself on this popular comedy
about a group of young, geeky scientists, Hawking brings the theoretical physicist
Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) back to Earth after finding an error in his work.
Hawking earned kudos for this light-hearted effort.

'The Theory of Everything'

In November of 2014, a film about the life of Hawking and Jane Wilde was released.
The Theory of Everything stars Eddie Redmayne as Hawking and encompasses his early
life and school days, his courtship and marriage to Wilde, the progression of his
crippling disease and his scientific triumphs.

On March 14, 2018, Hawking finally died of ALS, the disease that was supposed to
have killed him more than 50 years earlier. A family spokesman confirmed that the
iconic scientist died at his home in Cambridge, England.

The news touched many in his field and beyond. Fellow theoretical physicist and
author Lawrence Krauss tweeted: "A star just went out in the cosmos. We have lost
an amazing human being. Hawking fought and tamed the cosmos bravely for 76 years
and taught us all something important about what it truly means to celebrate about
being human."