Stephen Hawking The Life and Death of him
Stephen William Hawking was born in Oxford, England, on January 12, 1942. He was born 300 years after the day of Galileo’s death. His parents, Frank and Isobel Hawking, lived in North London, but moved to Oxford because it was safer to have babies there during World War II. Hawking had three siblings; Mary, Phillipa, and Edward. When Hawking was eight, he and his family moved to St. ... During his time at Cambridge, Hawking noticed that he was losing motor skills and coordination. ... Stephen Hawking is the author of A Brief History of Time, which is the World’s bestseller beneath the Bible and Shakespeare. ... Working with Roger Penrose, Hawking showed that Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity meant that space and time began in the Big Bang and would end in black holes. ... Stephen Hawking has written many books such as A Brief History of Time, which is about distant galaxies, black holes, and alternate dimensions, and The Universe in a Nutshell, which is a sequel to A Brief History of Time.