Professor Stephen William Hawking

Stephen Hawking
 Theoretical physicist, cosmologist

Born : 8 January 1942  Oxford, England

Died : 14 March 2018 (aged 76)  Cambridge, England

Education : St Albans School, Hertfordshire

Alma mater : University of Oxford , University of Cambridge (MA, PhD)

Known for

• Hawking radiation 
• A Brief History of Time
• Penrose–Hawking theorems
• Bekenstein–Hawking formula
• Hawking energy
• Gibbons–Hawking ansatz
• Gibbons–Hawking effect
• Gibbons–Hawking space
• Gibbons–Hawking–York boundary term
• Thorne–Hawking–Preskill bet

Awards

• Adams Prize (1966)
• Eddington Medal (1975)
• Maxwell Medal and Prize (1976)
• Heineman Prize (1976)
• Hughes Medal (1976)
• Albert Einstein Award (1978)
• RAS Gold Medal (1985)
• Dirac Medal (1987)
• Wolf Prize (1988)
• Prince of Asturias Award (1989)
• Andrew Gemant Award (1998)
• Naylor Prize and Lectureship (1999)
• Lilienfeld Prize (1999)
• Albert Medal (1999)
• Copley Medal (2006)
• Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009)
• Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2012)
• BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2015)

Scientific career

• Fields

         →General relativity
         →Quantum gravity

Thesis : Properties of Expanding Universes (1966)

Signature : 

S.Hawking

Films 

1. ​The Theory of Everything (2014)

                             https://youtu.be/Salz7uGp72c 

       2.  A Brief History of Time (1991) 

                               https://youtu.be/GiIIx6oh0pk

       3. Hawking (2004) BBC drama

                               https://youtu.be/3PNd1rldj0k

Professor Stephen William Hawking was born on 8th January 1942 (exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo) in Oxford, England. Stephen Hawking was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author, who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death.He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge between 1979 and 2009.His scientific works included a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. Hawking was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. He was a vigorous supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Quotes

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.