# Stephen Hawking

> A body that stopped working framed a mind that rewrote the rules of black holes and time itself - then spent decades proving you could be both the world's most uncompromising physicist and its most unlikely bestseller.

*British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942-2018)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/stephen-hawking

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Born:** 1942-01-08
- **Died:** 2018-03-14
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in Oxford in 1942 into a family of physicians, Hawking took a first-class BA in physics at University College, Oxford, in 1959, then moved to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, for a PhD in applied mathematics and theoretical physics. At 21, in 1963, he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease - a slow-progressing form that paralysed him over decades and eventually left him speaking through a cheek-muscle-driven device. His collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems and his theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation (Hawking radiation) met initial controversy but became a major breakthrough by the late 1970s. He held the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at Cambridge from 1979 to 2009 and was the first to propose a cosmology uniting general relativity and quantum mechanics. His book A Brief History of Time sat on the Sunday Times bestseller list for 237 weeks. He died in 2018 at 76, more than 50 years past his diagnosis.

## Fame
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- **Source confidence:** 80.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 90.0 / 100
- **Total followers across platforms:** 8,460

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## Topics
#Scientists, #Scientist, #Mathematics, #Literature, #Physics, #Astronomy, #Television, #Stand Up

## Timeline
- **2018** - Died
- **2015** - Bodley Medal
- **2008** - Fonseca Prize
- **2002** - Royal Society Science Books Prize
- **1991** - Marcel Grossmann Award
- **1989** - Companion of Honour
- **1981** - Franklin Medal
- **1976** - Hughes Medal
- **1966** - Adams Prize
- **1942** - Born

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