Question

Write about the constribution made by Stephen
Hawking to his field & Society.
Early academic life
Research
Discoveries​

Answer 1

(1) Stephen Hawking studied physics at University College, Oxford (B.A., 1962), and Trinity Hall, Cambridge (Ph.D., 1966).

(2) He was elected a research fellow at Gonville and Caius College at Cambridge. In the early 1960s Hawking contracted amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an incurable degenerative neuromuscular disease.

(3) He continued to work despite the disease’s progressively disabling effects.

(4) Stephen Hawking, in full Stephen William Hawking, (born January 8, 1942, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England and died March 14, 2018, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire), English theoretical physicist whose theory of exploding black holes.

(5) Drew upon both relativity theory and quantum mechanics.

(6) He also worked with space-time singularities.