Begins the life of Stephen Hawking, one of the most important scientists of the TWENTIETH century – The Century of Torreon

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The astrophysicist, cosmologist and science popularizer, british Stephen Hawking, who today turns 75 years of age, has stood by his discoveries about the radiation of black holes and the origin of the universe.

in Addition, it has been an example of the fight against Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), as prostrate in a wheelchair, has been able to grow as a husband, father, and one of the most distinguished scientists alive.

Stephen Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 in Oxford, England, in a family of intellectuals of the four brothers, it points to the page of the Internet buscabiografias.com.

Studied mathematics and physics at University College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1962. Four years later, he received a phd at Trinity Hall in Cambridge.

according To the portal biography.com during his stay at Cambridge, young Stephen began to notice changes in your health and even though they were under his father sent him to see a doctor and underwent several tests.

These medical studies revealed that Hawking was in the early stages of ALS, so that their life expectancy was not more than two years; as a result, the scientist left his job and suffered a serious depression.

as time passed and he noticed that his illness was stabilized, he managed to recover the moral, and confined to a wheelchair, started its process of certification.

When he got the phd he worked with the theoretical physicist Roger Penrose at the mathematical check of the start time. At the same time he was appointed assistant professor of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge.

he Paid special interest in the field of general relativity. In 1974 he proposed, in agreement with the predictions of quantum physics, black holes emit subatomic particles until you deplete your energy, to finally explode, highlights page of the Internet biografiasyvidas.com.

In 1977, he was appointed professor of Physics the Gravitational, in Cambridge, where two years later he obtained the chair Lucasian of mathematics, which in his time, came to occupy Isaac Newton (1643-1727).

The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time (1973), Superspace and Supergravity (1981), and the best-selling History of time: from the Big Bang to black holes (1988) are some of the works found in the study of Hawking on the properties of black holes and the relationship of these with the laws of thermodynamics-classical.

throughout his career he has been awarded with various awards: in 1989 won the Prince of Asturias award of Concord in 2006, he was awarded the Copley Medal, and in 2009 the Medal of Freedom.

On a personal note, Stephen Hawking married Jane Wilde (1944), with whom he had three children and after 25 years of marriage are separated, so that year he went to live with his nurse.

Currently, Hawking is still active as one of the scientific highlights.