Stephen Hawking Demographics:
- Name - Stephen William Hawking
- Birth - January 8, 1942
- Nationality - British
- Occupation - Theoretical physicist
- Honours - CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA
- Father - Dr. Frank Hawking, a research biologist.
- Mother - Isobel Hawking
- Siblings - 2 sisters, Philippa & Mary, & adopted brother, Edward.
- Contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes.
- Awarded the US Presidential Medal of Freedom (August 12, 2009).
- Elected (1974) as one of the youngest Fellows of the Royal Society.
- Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
- Has a neuro muscular dystrophy which has progressed, leaving him now almost completely paralyzed.
- Professor Hawking was ranked 25th in the 2002 BBC Poll of the 100 Greatest Britons (here).
- St Albans High School for Girls (1950-1953), admitted boys until age 10 years.
- St Albans School from age 11 years.
- Enrolled at University College, Oxford for his degree, choosing physics as mathematics was not available.
- B.A. degree at Oxford University in 1962.
- Moved from Oxford to Trinity Hall, Cambridge to study theoretical astronomy & cosmology.
- Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years (1979 - October 1, 2009).
- Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
- Distinguished Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario.
- Provided together with Roger Penrose, theorems regarding singularities in the framework of general relativity, including the theoretical prediction that black holes should emit radiation (Hawking radiation or Bekenstein-Hawking radiation).
- Lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Science.
- Mathematical proof (with Brandon Carter, Werner Israel & D. Robinson) of John Wheeler's "No-Hair Theorem".
- Multiple other advances in quantum cosmology, cosmic inflation etc.
- 1975 - Eddington Medal
- 1976 - Hughes Medal - Royal Society
- 1979 - Albert Einstein Medal
- 1982 - Order of the British Empire (Commander)
- 1985 - Gold Medal - Royal Astronomical Society
- 1986 - Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- 1988 - Wolf Prize in Physics
- 1989 - Prince of Asturias Awards in Concord
- 1989 - Companion of Honour
- 1999 - Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize - American Physical Society
- 2003 - Michelson Morley Award - Case Western Reserve University
- 2006 - Copley Medal - Royal Society
- 2008 - Fonseca Price - University of Santiago de Compostela
- 2009 - Presidential Medal of Freedom (United States)
- 1988 - A Brief History of Time, (Bantam Press)
- 1993 - Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays, (Bantam Books)
- 2001 - The Universe in a Nutshell, (Bantam Press)
- 2002 - On The Shoulders of Giants. The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy, (Running Press)
- 2005 - A Briefer History of Time, (Bantam Books)
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