Stephen William Hawking(72) born 8 January 1942(British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author).
Hawking was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge between 1979 and 2009.
He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States.
his A Brief History of Time stayed on the British Sunday Times best-sellers list for a record-breaking 237 weeks.
He is almost entirely paralysed and communicates through a speech generating device. He married twice and has three children.
Hawking went up to Oxford in October 1959, at the age of 17. For the first 18 months he was bored and lonely.
"It was only necessary for him to know that something could be done, and he could do it without looking to see how other people did it. A change occurred during his second and third year when, according to Berman.
Hawking has estimated that he had studied for only approximately 1000 hours during his three years at Oxford.
As he slowly lost the ability to use his hands to write, he developed visual methods of working to compensate, including seeing equations in terms of geometry.
ane Hawking later noted that "Some people would call it determination, some obstinacy. I've called it both at one time or another. He required much persuasion to accept the use of a wheelchair at the end of the 1960s.
A daughter, Lucy, was born in 1970, and soon after Hawking discovered what became known as the second law of black hole dynamics.
The event horizon of a black hole can never get smaller. With James M. Bardeen and Brandon Carter, he proposed the four laws of black hole mechanics, drawing an analogy with thermodynamics.
Hawking produced in on his speech generating device was a request for his assistant to help him finish writing A Brief History of Time.
Peter Guzzardi, his editor at Bantam, pushed him to explain his ideas clearly in non-technical language, a process that required multiple revisions from an increasingly irritated Hawking. The book was published in April 1988 in the US and in June in the UK, and proved to be extraordinary success, rising quickly to the top of bestseller lists in both countries and remaining there for weeks and months.The book was translated into multiple languages.
Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (at the age of 21 in 1963) related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, a condition that has progressed over the years.
Awards and honours
Hawking has been awarded the Gold Medal (1985) from the British Royal Astronomical Society and Copley (2006) Medals from the Royal Society. He shared the Israeli Wolf Prize in Physics with Roger Penrose in 1988. In 1981 he was awarded the American Franklin Medal, in 1999 the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society,and in 2003 the Michelson-Morley Award of Case Western Reserve University.[168] He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1982 and a Companion of Honour (CH) in 1989. In 2009 he received America's highest civilian honour, the Presidential Medal of Freedom He has also been awarded Spain's Fonseca Prize (2008). and the Russian Fundamental Physics Prize (2012).
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Earlier this month Intel's CTO (chief technical officer) Justin Rattner told Scientific American that he has been heading up a group working on a new interface that would allow Professor Hawking to increase those capabilities up to anywhere between 5 and 10 words per minute.
The interface will use facial recognition to be able to detect more movements than the voluntary cheek movement that the current interface uses.
The current system uses a camera that can detect Professor Hawking's cheek movements.
Those movements are then used to click a cursor that is constantly moving over a virtual keyboard on a computer screen attached to the front of Professor Hawking's wheelchair.
Once an entire sentence is completed a voice amplifier located underneath the wheelchair is activated and speaks that sentence in the computer generated voice.
In 1963 Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with a motor neurone disease that has been slowly robbing him of the use of his body.
The deterioration hasn't slowed professor Hawking as he went on to teach at Cambridge University, give lecture all over the world, dictate a couple of New York Time's best selling books and even guest star on Star Trek: The Next Generation where he appeared as a hologram playing poker.
In 2007 Professor Hawking went from just being a hologram visit outer-space to actually going into space and being the first quadriplegic to experience zero-gravity.
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