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Steven HawkingSteven William Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford,England. He was always interested in science and how things worked.From about the age of 20, he was awarded a first-class honours degree class honors degree inNatural Sciences. After receiving his degree, Steven went toCambridge, to do search on Cosmology. After receiving his Ph.D., heleft the Institute of Astronomy and since then he has held the post ofLucasian Professor of Mathematics. In the late 1960s, Steven provedthat if general theory of relativity is true and the Universe is expanding, airregularity must have occurred at the birth of the Universe. In 1974,he first recognized a truly funny property of black holes, objectsfrom which nothing was supposed to be able to escape. By taking intoaccount quantum mechanics, he was able to show that black holes can gleam energy as particles are created in their vicinity. Dr. Hawkinghas also worked on the basic laws that govern the universe. WithRodge r Penrose, he showed that Einsteins General Theory of Relativityimplied space and age would have had a beginning in the Big Bang,and an end in black holes. These results indicated it was necessary tounify General Relativity with Quantum Theory, the other corkingscientific development of the first half of the 20th century. Oneconsequence of such a unification that he discovered was that blackholes should not be completely black, but it should emit radiation andeventually evaporate and disappear. Another speculation is that theuniverse has no edge or boundary in ideational time. This would implythat the way the universe began was completely determined by the lawsof science. While studying at Oxford, Steven noticed that he wasbecoming rather clumsy during his first year. When he returned homeone Christmas 1962, his mother persuaded him to go to the doctor. In1963, he was diagnosed with ALS (Ameliotrophic Lateral Sclerosis orbest known as the lou Gehrigs disease).This disease is progressive andslowly affects the nerves supplying all the muscles in the body.Dr. Hawking has several books, but his most prestigious feat may be aBrief History of Time, which was published in 1988. When askedrecently about his disability and other questions surrounding it hereplied People are fascinated by the contrast between my verylimited physical powers, and the vast nature of the universe I dealwith. Im the archetype of a disabled genius, or should I say aphysically challenged genius, to be politically correct.