Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking
⬧ Stephen Hawking was born on January 8, 1942 in England.
⬧ Stephen Hawking's father's name was Frank and mother's name was Isabel.
⬧ He earned a degree in Physics and Chemistry.
⬧ At the age of 21, he suffered from a genetic disease called 'Neuron Mortar Disease', which had no cure at that time.
⬧ Stephen Hawking spent most of his research time researching the theories of black holes and space time.
⬧ He also published many letters in this regard, due to which he got fame all over the world.
⬧ His most famous discovery was when he told that some amount of radiation also comes out from black hole.
⬧ Earlier it was believed that nothing could escape from a black hole due to its powerful gravity. Today the radiation emanating from the black hole is called Hawking radiation.
⬧ His major book is 'A Brief History of Time', which was published in the year 1998.
⬧ In this book, complex topics of cosmology, such as the Big Bang Theory and black holes, have been explained in a simple way.
⬧ Hawking died at the age of 76 on March 14, 2018 in Cambridge.