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Stephen William Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) 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.[18][19][8] He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge between 1979 and 2009.
Stephen Hawking
CH CBE FRS FRSA
Black-and-white photograph of Stephen Hawking at NASA's StarChild Learning Center
Hawking at NASA's StarChild Learning Center, 1980s
Born
Stephen William Hawking
8 January 1942
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Died
14 March 2018 (aged 76)
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Cause of death
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Resting place
Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London[1]
Nationality
British
Education
St Albans School, Hertfordshire
Alma mater
University of Oxford (BA)
University of Cambridge (PhD)[2]
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
Spouse(s)
Jane Wilde
(m. 1965; div. 1995)
Elaine Mason
(m. 1995; div. 2007)
Children
3, including Lucy Hawking
Awards
Adams Prize (1966)
Eddington Medal (1975)
Maxwell Medal and Prize (1976)
Heineman Prize (1976)
Hughes Medal (1976)
Albert Einstein Award (1978)
Albert Einstein Medal (1979)
RAS Gold Medal (1985)
Dirac Medal (1987)
Wolf Prize (1988)
Prince of Asturias Award (1989)
Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1992)
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
Institutions
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
California Institute of Technology
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Thesis
Properties of Expanding Universes (1966)
Doctoral advisor