Stephen Hawking

Awards And Honors: •Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009)

•Copley Medal (2006)

Subjects Of Study: •black hole

•mini black hole •space-time

Stephen Hawking is born on January 08, 1942 in Oxford, England but in the age of 76 he was died on
March 14, 2018 in Cambridge, England. He had two younger sisters, Mary born in 1943 and Philippa in
1947. His father, Frank Hawking and his mother is Isobel Walker. In 1964 Stephen Hawkings was
engaged to Jane Wilde and they had three children: Robert, born in 1967, Lucy in 1970 and Timothy in
1979. But they separated in 1990 and were divorced in 1995. In the same year, Stephen married Elaine
Mason. Eventually, their relationship also came to an end they were divorced in 2007. During the early
1970s, he gradually lost the ability to write.

Hawking’s contributions to physics earned him many exceptional honours. In 1974 the Royal Society
elected him one of its youngest fellows. He became professor of gravitational physics at Cambridge in
1977, and in 1979 he was appointed to Cambridge’s Lucasian professorship of mathematics. Hawking
was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1982 and a Companion of Honour in
1989. He also received the Copley Medal from the Royal Society in 2006 and the U.S. Presidential Medal
of Freedom in 2009. In 2008 he accepted a visiting research chair at the Perimeter Institute for
Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Stephen Hawking contribution to the literature is his published books, one of this is the The Large Scale
Structure of Space-Time (1973; coauthored with G.F.R. Ellis),Superspace and Supergravity (1981), The
Very Early Universe (1983), and the best sellers A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
(1988), The Universe in a Nutshell (2001), A Briefer History of Time (2005), and The Grand Design (2010;
coauthored with Leonard Mlodinow). And his other contributions are his understanding of gravity and
his study about the black holes and cosmology were truly immense. That helps many researchers and
scientists to understand about the black hole. Despite his disease and disabilities he pursue his studies
and contributed many things in the literature like his books, writings and his theory about gravity where
many people today is learning and make use of it. One of his greatest contribution to the world of
literature is his in-depth studies of the universe, specifically the framework of general relativity and
quantum mechanics, became a popular introduction to the field for lay persons, and Hawking was a
popular figure in pop culture as well appearing on hugely popular television shows such as The Simpsons
and Star Trek: The Next Generation. His best-selling work, A Brief History of Time, stayed on the Sunday
Times bestsellers list for an astounding 237 weeks. Stephen Hawking was one of the most well-known
physicists in the world.