Stephen Hawking

Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS (born January 8 1942, in Oxford, England) is one of the world's leading theoretical physicists. Hawking is Lucasian professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge (a post once held by Sir Isaac Newton), and a fellow of Gonville and Caius College. The fact that he holds this post while being almost completely incapacitated with severe amyotrophic lateral sclerosis has made him a worldwide celebrity.

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