Stephen Hawking
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Science
- Subcategories: Scientists, Physics, Physicists, Disabilities, Handicapped People
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, British History
Article abstract: Many consider Hawking to be the greatest physicist of the late twentieth century. His work combines the two primary developments of early twentieth century physics—general relativity and quantum mechanics—to explain the origins and structure of the universe.
Early Life
Stephen William Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, on the three hundredth anniversary of the death of one of the greatest physicists of all time, Galileo Galilei, who is generally credited with proving that the earth revolves around the sun. Hawking’s birth was...
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