Who is Stephen Hawking?
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Stephen William Hawking was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author.
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He was born in Oxford UK at January 8 1942
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- Stephen William Hawking was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the University of Cambridge's Centre for Theoretical Cosmology when he died.
- He worked at the University of Cambridge as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1979 until 2009.
- Hawking came from a family of doctors at Oxford. He began his academic career at University College, Oxford, in October 1959, when he was 17 years old, and graduated with a first-class BA degree in physics.
- He began his academic studies in October 1962 at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he received his PhD in applied mathematics and theoretical physics in March 1966, with a focus on general relativity and cosmology.
- Hawking was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 1963, a slow-progressing type of motor neuron disease.
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