Thursday, January 5, 2012

- Stephen Hawking -

-Hawking 2 turn 70 on 8 jan. 2012.

-It will be Hawking's 70th birthday.

-Stephen Hawking is born in oxford , England, on Jan 8, 1942, .... 300 years to the day of Galileo's death.

- In 1963 , while pursuing his PhD at Cambridge University, he is diagnosed with 'motor neurone disease' Lou Gehrig's disease. Doctors give him about 2 years to live.

-He marries Jane Wilde in 1965, they have 3 children.

- In 1979 , he named the Lucasian  professor of mathematics at cambridge, post previously held by Isaac Newton.

- During a 1985 trip to CERN he catches pneumonia. He requires a tracheotomy and loses the ability to speak. He starts using a computer and voice synthesizer.

- Hawking's 'A brief history of time' is published in 1988, The book sells more than 10 million copies.

- He takes a zero gravity flight in 2007 , the first time he is free of his wheelchair in 40 years.


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