Stephen Hawking: A brief

history of genius - in pictures

In memory of Stephen Hawking

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Stephen Hawking was born precisely 3 hundred years after the demise

of the scientist Galileo, so perhaps it became written with-inside the

stars that he might turn out to be a well-known scientist in his personal

right. Although he became recognized with a neurological ailment at

age 21, Stephen did not allow the disease outline his life. Known for his

groundbreaking work in physics, and recognized through his wheelchair

and automatic voice system, Stephen endured his studies till his demise

in 2018. He is great recognized for his black hole theories and his great-

promoting book A Brief History of Time. Stephen Hawking is an

example of someone who had a splendid mind, however a fair extra

spirit.
Stephen Hawking Parents
 1942

Isobel Hawking (mother), holding

Stephen shortly after his birth.

 1942

Dr Frank Hawking (father), holding

Stephen shortly after his birth.

Hawking at a tender age of

three.
 1946

Professor Stephen Hawking as a

young boy.
Stephen Hawking with his siblings Philippa and Mary
Stephen Hawking steering a boat as he heads for fishing
during his teenage years.
Schoolboy Stephen, aged 12, casually on his bicycle
near his childhood home in St Albans.
 Early 1950's

Stephen Hawking (far left) at school in St Albans, working

with fellow students and teacher on assembling an early
computer.
Stephen Hawking as a young

boy, aged 12, standing outside

his house in 1954.

Stephen Hawking ready to ride away on his horse
Stephen Hawking in

oxford university.
 1961

Young Stephen Hawking, aged 20 (with handkerchief) with the

Oxford University Boat Club at play.
Coxing in 1961 in Oxford, where Stephen Hawking was born.
Graduation day at Oxford

in 1962.
 Undergraduate, Stephen Hawking, and the University College,
Oxford, crew that he coxed to victory in the 1960 – 1961 ‘Novice
EIghts’, an inter-Oxford college race for first-year students.
Stephen Hawking reading a
newspaper at 21 years old on
May 17, 1963.
1965

Stephen and Jane Hawking’s wedding day in St Albans,

Hertfordshire.
Hawking with his wife and children Lucy and

Robert in the 1970s.

Lucy Hawking; (right) a photograph of the Hawking
family taken in 1974 — Lucy with brother Robert
and parents Jane Wilde and Stephen Hawking.
 Hawking and family enjoying

their Caltech home, 1975.

Stephen Hawking, 1975.

Hawking, left, enjoys a cookout with his family in Cambridge,
England, in 1977
Stephen Hawking with his family
Professor Stephen Hawking in Princeton, New

Jersey, in 1979
A young Stephen Hawking
obliges the camera with his
trademark smile.
Hawking on his way to university from his residence in
Cambridge.
Stephen Hawking with his wife Jane and children Tim, Robert,
and Lucy in the early 1980s
Stephen Hawking and Tim Hawking enjoying a game of chess.
Stephen Hawking with his first wife Jane during the early
stages of myotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), around late
1970’s
Hawking at an ALS convention
in San Francisco in the 1980s
 1985

Hawking and Nobel Prize

winner Dorothy Hodgkin with

their portraits at the National

Portrait Gallery in London.

Hawking, seen here with
his secretary in 1986, was
known for his wit and
humor as well as his
intellect.
1989

Professor Hawking and his wife, Jane, at Buckingham Palace

when the professor received the riband and badge of the
Companions of Honour award.
Hawking and his first wife, Jane,
pose for a photo in Paris in 1989.
Hawking interacts with a child while opening an exhibition at a
science museum in 1993.
1995

Professor Stephen Hawking with his second

wife Elaine Mason after their wedding.
John Preskill, Kip Thorne, and Stephen Hawking

committing to their bet. February 6, 1997.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates (left) accompanied by University
Vice-Chancellor Professor Alec Broers, meets Professor
Stephen Hawking on a visit to Cambridge University in 1997.
As his daughter looks on, Hawking receives the Albert Medal
from Britain’s Prince Philip in 1999.
Hawking visited the White House for a “Millennium Evening”
event in 1998. He talked about the future of science during a
live telecast that also included US President Bill Clinton, left.
 June 2000

Stephen Hawking on the

occasion of Kip Thorne's

60th birthday.
Hawking with string theorists David Gross and Edward Witten at
the Strings Conference in January 2001, TIFR, India
Dennis Avery, Julian Revie, Sally Wong-Avery and Stephen

Hawking in 2005.
 April 2005

Stephen and Elaine Hawking at San Lorenzo beach in

the northern Spanish city of Gijón.
 2006

Stephen W. Hawking (left) receiving the Copley

Medal of the Royal Society.
People carry Hawking up steps as he visits Beijing’s Temple of Heaven
in 2006. He was in the city to attend a conference on string theory,
according to state media.
 Hawking at the Bibliothèque
nationale de France to
inaugurate the Laboratory of
Astronomy and Particles in
Paris, and the French release of
his work God Created the
Integers, 5 May 2006
British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking photographed with his

daughter Lucy at the institute of Mathematics, Jan. 21, 2006, in

Cambridge, UK.
Christophe Galfard, Professor Stephen Hawking and his daughter Lucy

pose for photographs in Professor Hawking's office at The Centre for

Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, in central England, Sept. 3, 2007.

 June 2007

Professor Hawking and his daughter Lucy. Taken in the

professor’s office.
 2007

Professor Hawking experiencing a zero gravity flight.

Stephen Hawking with Jim Parsons on 'The Big Bang Theory'.
Peter Poppinga and his family with

Stephen Hawking
Lucy Hawking (R) touches her father Professor Stephen Hawking (L)
as they give a lecture entitled 'Why We Should Go Into Space' during
the 50 Years of NASA lecture series at George Washington
University in Washington, DC, April 21, 2008.
Late former South African President Nelson Mandela (right)
with professor Stephen Hawking at Mandela's Foundation
office, Johannesburg in 2008.
2009

Meeting with Barack and Michelle Obama on the occasion of

being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
 2009

Professor Hawking photographed in Cambridge

 2009

Professor Hawking with

his commissioned portrait
by Tai-Shan Schierenberg
During the celebrations to
mark Professor Hawking’s
70th birthday (8th January
2012).
Hawking was invited to Olympic Stadium for the opening ceremony

of the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

In 2014, Hawking unveiled a scientific formula to predict the
chances of England’s soccer team winning the World Cup.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth (Left) meets Stephen Hawking
during a reception at St James's Palace in London May
29, 2014.
 2014

The premier of The Theory of Everything with actor Eddie

Redmayne, who played him in the film.
Hawking in Monty Python's “Galaxy Song” video at the comedy
troupe's 2014 reunion show, Monty Python Live (Mostly)
 2015
Professor Hawking, at home with his Celestron CPC
Deluxe 1100 HD telescope.
Stephen Hawking Siblings
Professor Stephen Hawking celebrates 50 years as a
fellow of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, in 2015
holding a Caius teddy bear.
 2015

Professor Hawking in front of the blackboard used in

DAMTP’s Common Room.
2015

Professor Hawking outside the Department of

Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge.
2015

Professor Hawking and his daughter, Lucy.

Stephen Hawking and daughter

Lucy Hawking attends the EE

British Academy Film Awards

at The Royal Opera House, Feb.

8, 2015, in London.
 Hawking with University of Oxford librarian Richard Ovenden (left) and
naturalist David Attenborough (right) at the opening of the Weston Library,
Oxford, in March 2015. Ovenden awarded the Bodley Medal to Hawking and
Attenborough at the ceremony.
Hawking holding a
public lecture at
the Stockholm
Waterfront congress
centre, 24 August
2015
 2016

Selfie taken by Stephen Hawking in his University of

Cambridge office using DLSR connected to his laptop.
 2016

Professor Stephen Hawking, Professor Malcolm Perry

(centre) and Professor Andy Strominger (right) having fun
at Black Hole Lane, near Brinsop Court, Herefordshire.
Hawking was granted the Honorary Freedom of the city of

London in 2017.
 This equation contains within it all of the most important parts of
Professor Hawking’s most important discovery. It expresses neatly the
idea that would come to define his work for the rest of his life:
that black holes weren’t entirely black after all, and instead emitted a
glow that would become known as Hawking radiation.
 2017

Pope Francis blesses

Professor Hawking and
thanks him for his constant
commitment to the
Pontifical Academy of
Sciences.
 2017
Celebrating Professor Hawking’s 75th birthday at home.
Pallbearers carry the coffin holding the remains of theoretical
physicist Stephen Hawking out of Great St. Mary's Church at
the conclusion of his funeral service, in Cambridge, Britain,
March 31, 2018.
 2017
Professor Hawking gave his final public appearance
at the Cambridge Union where he announced the
Stephen Hawking Fellowship Lecture series.
Stephen Hawking is pictured on a night out in Mayfair before
his death at the age of 76.
 2018

Professor Hawking’s memorial stone in Westminster Abbey.

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