Stephen Hawking: A brief history of genius - in pictures

In memory of Stephen Hawking

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Stephen Hawking was born precisely 3 hundred years after the demise

of the scientist Galileo, so perhaps it became written with-inside the

stars that he might turn out to be a well-known scientist in his personal

right. Although he became recognized with a neurological ailment at

age 21, Stephen did not allow the disease outline his life. Known for his

groundbreaking work in physics, and recognized through his wheelchair

and automatic voice system, Stephen endured his studies till his demise

in 2018. He is great recognized for his black hole theories and his great-

promoting book A Brief History of Time. Stephen Hawking is an

example of someone who had a splendid mind, however a fair extra

spirit.

Stephen Hawking Parents

Isobel Hawking (mother), holding

Stephen shortly after his birth.

1942

Dr Frank Hawking (father), holding

Stephen shortly after his birth.

1942

Hawking at a tender age of

three.

Professor Stephen Hawking as a

young boy.

1946

Stephen Hawking with his siblings Philippa and Mary

Stephen Hawking steering a boat as he heads for fishing

during his teenage years.

Schoolboy Stephen, aged 12, casually on his bicycle

near his childhood home in St Albans.

Stephen Hawking (far left) at school in St Albans, working

with fellow students and teacher on assembling an early

computer.

Early 1950's

Stephen Hawking as a young

boy, aged 12, standing outside

his house in 1954.

Stephen Hawking ready to ride away on his horse

Stephen Hawking in

oxford university.

Young Stephen Hawking, aged 20 (with handkerchief) with the

Oxford University Boat Club at play.

1961

Coxing in 1961 in Oxford, where Stephen Hawking was born.

Graduation day at Oxford

in 1962.

Undergraduate, Stephen Hawking, and the University College,

Oxford, crew that he coxed to victory in the 1960 – 1961 ‘Novice

EIghts’, an inter-Oxford college race for first-year students.

Stephen Hawking reading a

newspaper at 21 years old on

May 17, 1963.

Stephen and Jane Hawking’s wedding day in St Albans,

Hertfordshire.

1965

Hawking with his wife and children Lucy and

Robert in the 1970s.

Lucy Hawking; (right) a photograph of the Hawking

family taken in 1974 — Lucy with brother Robert

and parents Jane Wilde and Stephen Hawking.

Stephen Hawking, 1975.

Hawking and family enjoying

their Caltech home, 1975.

Hawking, left, enjoys a cookout with his family in Cambridge,

England, in 1977

Stephen Hawking with his family

Professor Stephen Hawking in Princeton, New

Jersey, in 1979

A young Stephen Hawking

obliges the camera with his

trademark smile.

Hawking on his way to university from his residence in

Cambridge.

Stephen Hawking with his wife Jane and children Tim, Robert,

and Lucy in the early 1980s

Stephen Hawking and Tim Hawking enjoying a game of chess.

Stephen Hawking with his first wife Jane during the early

stages of myotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), around late

1970’s

Hawking at an ALS convention

in San Francisco in the 1980s

Hawking and Nobel Prize

winner Dorothy Hodgkin with

their portraits at the National

Portrait Gallery in London.

1985

Hawking, seen here with

his secretary in 1986, was

known for his wit and

humor as well as his

intellect.

Professor Hawking and his wife, Jane, at Buckingham Palace

when the professor received the riband and badge of the

Companions of Honour award.

1989

Hawking and his first wife, Jane,

pose for a photo in Paris in 1989.

Hawking interacts with a child while opening an exhibition at a

science museum in 1993.

Professor Stephen Hawking with his second

wife Elaine Mason after their wedding.

1995

John Preskill, Kip Thorne, and Stephen Hawking

committing to their bet. February 6, 1997.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates (left) accompanied by University

Vice-Chancellor Professor Alec Broers, meets Professor

Stephen Hawking on a visit to Cambridge University in 1997.

As his daughter looks on, Hawking receives the Albert Medal

from Britain’s Prince Philip in 1999.

Hawking visited the White House for a “Millennium Evening”

event in 1998. He talked about the future of science during a

live telecast that also included US President Bill Clinton, left.

Stephen Hawking on the

occasion of Kip Thorne's

60th birthday.

June 2000

Hawking with string theorists David Gross and Edward Witten at

the Strings Conference in January 2001, TIFR, India

Dennis Avery, Julian Revie, Sally Wong-Avery and Stephen

Hawking in 2005.

Stephen and Elaine Hawking at San Lorenzo beach in

the northern Spanish city of Gijón.

April 2005

Stephen W. Hawking (left) receiving the Copley

Medal of the Royal Society.

2006

People carry Hawking up steps as he visits Beijing’s Temple of Heaven

in 2006. He was in the city to attend a conference on string theory,

according to state media.

Hawking at the Bibliothèque

nationale de France to

inaugurate the Laboratory of

Astronomy and Particles in

Paris, and the French release of

his work God Created the

Integers, 5 May 2006

British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking photographed with his

daughter Lucy at the institute of Mathematics, Jan. 21, 2006, in

Cambridge, UK.

Christophe Galfard, Professor Stephen Hawking and his daughter Lucy

pose for photographs in Professor Hawking's office at The Centre for

Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, in central England, Sept. 3, 2007.

Professor Hawking and his daughter Lucy. Taken in the

professor’s office.

June 2007

Professor Hawking experiencing a zero gravity flight.

2007

Stephen Hawking with Jim Parsons on 'The Big Bang Theory'.

Peter Poppinga and his family with

Stephen Hawking

Lucy Hawking (R) touches her father Professor Stephen Hawking (L)

as they give a lecture entitled 'Why We Should Go Into Space' during

the 50 Years of NASA lecture series at George Washington

University in Washington, DC, April 21, 2008.

Late former South African President Nelson Mandela (right)

with professor Stephen Hawking at Mandela's Foundation

office, Johannesburg in 2008.

Meeting with Barack and Michelle Obama on the occasion of

being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

2009

Professor Hawking photographed in Cambridge

2009

Professor Hawking with

his commissioned portrait

by Tai-Shan Schierenberg

2009

During the celebrations to

mark Professor Hawking’s

70th birthday (8th January

2012).

Hawking was invited to Olympic Stadium for the opening ceremony

of the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

In 2014, Hawking unveiled a scientific formula to predict the

chances of England’s soccer team winning the World Cup.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth (Left) meets Stephen Hawking

during a reception at St James's Palace in London May

29, 2014.

The premier of The Theory of Everything with actor Eddie

Redmayne, who played him in the film.

2014

Hawking in Monty Python's “Galaxy Song” video at the comedy

troupe's 2014 reunion show, Monty Python Live (Mostly)

Professor Hawking, at home with his Celestron CPC

Deluxe 1100 HD telescope.

2015

Stephen Hawking Siblings

Professor Stephen Hawking celebrates 50 years as a

fellow of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, in 2015

holding a Caius teddy bear.

Professor Hawking in front of the blackboard used in

DAMTP’s Common Room.

2015

Professor Hawking outside the Department of

Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,

University of Cambridge.

2015

Professor Hawking and his daughter, Lucy.

2015

Stephen Hawking and daughter

Lucy Hawking attends the EE

British Academy Film Awards

at The Royal Opera House, Feb.

8, 2015, in London.

Hawking with University of Oxford librarian Richard Ovenden (left) and

naturalist David Attenborough (right) at the opening of the Weston Library,

Oxford, in March 2015. Ovenden awarded the Bodley Medal to Hawking and

Attenborough at the ceremony.

Hawking holding a

public lecture at

the Stockholm

Waterfront congress

centre, 24 August

2015

Selfie taken by Stephen Hawking in his University of

Cambridge office using DLSR connected to his laptop.

2016

Professor Stephen Hawking, Professor Malcolm Perry

(centre) and Professor Andy Strominger (right) having fun

at Black Hole Lane, near Brinsop Court, Herefordshire.

2016

Hawking was granted the Honorary Freedom of the city of

London in 2017.

This equation contains within it all of the most important parts of

Professor Hawking’s most important discovery. It expresses neatly the

idea that would come to define his work for the rest of his life:

that black holes weren’t entirely black after all, and instead emitted a

glow that would become known as Hawking radiation.

Pope Francis blesses

Professor Hawking and

thanks him for his constant

commitment to the

Pontifical Academy of

Sciences.

2017

Celebrating Professor Hawking’s 75th birthday at home.

2017

Pallbearers carry the coffin holding the remains of theoretical

physicist Stephen Hawking out of Great St. Mary's Church at

the conclusion of his funeral service, in Cambridge, Britain,

March 31, 2018.

Professor Hawking gave his final public appearance

at the Cambridge Union where he announced the

Stephen Hawking Fellowship Lecture series.

2017

Stephen Hawking is pictured on a night out in Mayfair before

his death at the age of 76.

Professor Hawking’s memorial stone in Westminster Abbey.

2018

The Stephen Hawking Book List