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Stephen Hawking, in full Stephen William Hawking, (born January 8, 1942, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England—died March 14, 2018, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire), English theoretical physicist whose theory of exploding black holes drew upon both relativity theory and quantum mechanics. He also worked with space-time singularities.
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Born
Stephen William Hawking
8 January 1942
Oxford, England
Died
14 March 2018 (aged 76)
Cambridge, England
Resting place
Westminster Abbey[1]
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
Black hole information paradox
Micro black hole
Primordial black hole
Chronology protection conjecture
Soft hair (No hair theorem)
Bekenstein–Hawking formula
Hawking energy
Hawking-Page phase transition
Gibbons–Hawking ansatz
Gibbons–Hawking effect
Gibbons–Hawking space
Gibbons–Hawking–York boundary term
Hartle–Hawking state
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
Dennis Sciama[3]
Other academic advisors
Robert Berman[4]
Doctoral students
Bruce Allen[3][5]
Raphael Bousso[3][6]
Bernard Carr[3][7][8]
Fay Dowker[3][9]
Christophe Galfard [fr][10]
Gary Gibbons[3][11][8]
Thomas Hertog[3][12]
Raymond Laflamme[3][13]
Don Page[3][14]
Malcolm Perry[3][15][8]
Christopher Pope
Marika Taylor[3][16]
Alan Yuille
Wu Zhongchao[3][17]
27 others[3