World famous physicist Stephen Hawking passed away on
March 14, 2018, leaving behind a rich legacy.
Hawking had a rare early-onset slowprogressing form of motor neurone disease that gradually paralyzed him over the decades. But he was fiercely independent and unwilling to accept help or make concessions for his disabilities. He preferred to be regarded as “a scientist, a popular science writer and above all a normal human being with desires, drives, dreams and ambitions like others”.
Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, which happened to be the 300th death anniversary of Galileo. In his long career in physics, Hawking received an incredibly impressive array of awards and distinctions. In 2009, Hawking was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom – the highest civilian honor of the United States of America. Stephen Hawking was best known for his work on black holes, the dense structures in the universe that remain one of the puzzling subject in Cosmology
The most surprising facet of Stephen
Hawking was that of being the author of a children’s book. In 2007, Hawking and his daughter Lucy collaborated to write the book ‘George’s Secret Key to the Universe’. The story is about a young boy, George, who is highly tech-savvy. He befriends neighbors, one of whom is a physicist with a computer that turns out to be most powerful computer in the world! It offers portals to see and enter into outer space! The book was the first of its series and the second one was released in 2009 titled ‘George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt’.
Known for his wit and humour,
Hawking has also appeared in various TV shows and talk shows such as ‘Good Morning Britain, Late Night with Conan, Larry King Live’ etc…
The Theory of Everything’ (released
in 2014) – an Oscar nominated biopic on Hawking portrays his life and relationships before, during and after his diagnosis of the rare disease at the age of 21. The movie had won Academy Awards and
Golden Globe Awards. Hawking provided his own voice for the movie.
Stephen Hawking was the best and
possibly the most admired, scientist in the world. It was not without reason that he was compared to Albert Einstein!
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