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Stephen Hawking Research Paper

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Stephen Hawking was a theoretical physicist who was, and continues to be a leader in his field even after his death. Born on January 8th 1942, Hawking began his career at the age of 17 at the University of Oxford. He then proceeded to attend the University of Cambridge where he would apply Roger Penrose’s theorem of a spacetime singularity in the centre of black holes to the entire universe which is known as the Big Bang. At the young age of 21, Hawking was diagnosed with a rare early onset slow progressing disease knows as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s and was given two years to live. He had three children with his first wife Jane Wilde including Lucy Hawking. Furthermore, Hawking is also well known for his best seller A Brief History of Time.

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