Stephen Hawking biography with his discoveries

STRANGE HUMAN- Stephen Hawking

➤Stephen Hawking is one of the most intelligent humans to have ever walked the earth who recently passed away. Here are some real facts about him.

➤Stephen loved math at a young age, but his father wanted him to study medicine at college. He eventually went on to study Physics at the Oxford University because mathematics wasn't a major.

➤Hawking didn't learn to read well until he was 8 years old, and by his own confession, he was a lazy student all the years he was at Oxford University.

➤Stephen Hawking is a genius but his life started and ended on dates relating to other geniuses. He was born on Galileo's 300th death anniversary and died on Albert Einstein's birthday.

➤In 1963, Hawking was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and should have only survived 3 years, but he lived on for another fifty years instead.

➤Stephen dreamed of writing a physics book that the general public could understand and wrote it with his speech synthesizer and assistance from his students. The result was "A Brief History of Time," published in 1988.

➤After undergoing a tracheotomy, Hawking lost his voice and required 24-hour care. Thankfully in 1985, a Californian computer programmer caught wind of his condition and made a computer to help him speak  with his head and eye movement.

➤Hawking married twice. The first was the mother of his three children, but that ended in divorce in 1990. He left his wife for his nurse, Elaine Mason. However, she filed for divorce with him in 2006.

➤To prove backward time travel probably wasn't possible, Stephen Hawking hosted a party for time travelers, and no one came, which was the point. He even sent invitations after the party ended.

➤Stephen's Ph.D. doctoral thesis was called "Properties of the Expanding Universe." It basically tried to show how the universe could be created in mathematical terms, starting with the big bang. When it was made available online, the website hosting the thesis crashed.

➤Hawking claimed to be an atheist and didn't believe in a personal God, heaven, or the afterlife. Despite this, he still claimed the universe and life had meaning.

➤Not only was Stephen Hawking a famous scientist, but he also appeared on several television shows, including Star Trek, The Simpsons, and The Big Bang Theory.

➤Hawking was very vocal about how the world would end. Of his theories, he claimed artificial intelligence, nuclear war, pandemics, climate  change, or over-population will end humanity. HE was also a big proponent of finding a new planet to live on.

➤At the age of 65, Stephen flew up in a space shuttle to experience zero gravity. He was weightless for a total of four minutes.

➤Stephen has an equation named after him called "Hawking's Equation." The formula is a centerpiece for our understanding of black holes. He said HE wanted it engraved on his tombstone.

➤Along with Jim Hartle, Hawking came up with the Boundless Universe Theory in 1983. It claims the universe has no boundaries but is also a contained entity.

➤Stephen made a bet with fellow physicist John Preskill in 1997 that information was lost in black holes. Preskill disagreed and said information can escape them. In 2004, Hawking admitted he was wrong.

➤In 1985, he suffered a bout of pneumonia and almost died. His doctors offered to take him off life support, but his wife refused. Thankfully, he survived and recovered enough to finish "A Brief History of Time."

➤Stephen received several awards and distinctions, including the Albert Einstein Award, the Hughes Medal from the Royal Society, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama.

➤Hawking was also a children's book author. He and his daughter Lucy cO-wrote a series of children's books; the first one is called, "George's Secret Key to the Universe." Four more books were published in the series.

➤Among other physicists like Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stephen also supported the "multiverse" theory, which suggests we are just one of several parallel universes out among the cosmos.

CONCLUSION

This man changed the way world works by becoming a celebrity scientist and brought respect for science among millions of people.