List the facts you have learned about Stephen Hawking in chronological order in the time line
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Jan 8 1942
Born in Oxford, England (300 years after the death of Galileo).
1953 to 1958
Attends St Albans school in North London, where he develops a passion for mathematics. His father wants him to study medicine.
1959 to 1962
Specialises in physics at University College Oxford. Graduates with a first class degree in natural sciences..
1963
Begins research in cosmology and general relativity at the University of Cambridge. He is diagnosed with an "incurable disease" at the age of 21, which is later found to be Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a rare progressive disease that effects movement and speech. He continues with his research.
1966
Completes his doctorate and is awarded a fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He works on singularities in the theory of general relativity and applies his ideas to the study of black holes. Collaborates with mathematician Roger Penrose, who was working at Birkbeck College in London.
1970
Discovers a remarkable property: by using quantum theory and general relativity he is able to show that black holes can emit radiation.
1973
Joins the department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics at Cambridge.
In the same year he discovers, to his disbelief, that black holes could leak energy and particles into space, and even explode in a fountain of high-energy sparks.
1974
His breakthrough discovery is published in the journal Nature, in a paper entitled Black hole Explosion?
1977
Appointed professor of gravitational physics at Cambridge.
1979
Appointed Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge (a chair held by Sir Isaac Newton in 1663). Elected as a fellow of the Royal Society.
1982
Awarded a CBE by the Queen.
1988
Publishes A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, a classic introduction to today's most important scientific ideas about the cosmos. Recorded in the 1998 Guinness Book of Records as an all-time bestseller.
1989
Made a companion of honour.
1993
Publishes Black Holes and Baby Universes, and other Essays, a collection of scientific articles exploring ways in which the universe may be governed.
1998
Publishes Stephen Hawking's Universe: The Cosmos Explained, a book about the basis of our existence and of everything around us.
November 2001
Releases Universe in a Nutshell in the UK, a book that unravels the mysteries of recent breakthroughs in physics.
September 2002
Releases On the Shoulders of Giants, The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy, an exploration of some of the greatest visionaries in the history of science including Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton and Einstein.
Publishes The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe, a book that presents the most complex theories of physics past and present.
July 2004
Hawking announces that he has solved the Black Hole paradox, which has been a troubling scientists for years. He presents his most recent findings at the international conference on general relativity and gravitation in Dublin.