10 Things You Probably Didnt Know About Stephen Hawkins
 Stephen Hawkings is a great man as he has won himself the highest respect around the globe, the 75 years old theoretical physicists and cosmologists has done great things men of his kind will find impossible to do, i thought it wise to write an article about this great mind and to also share a video wtih you guys about this great hero.

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Stephen Hawking is the former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and author of A Brief History of Time, which was an international bestseller. Now the Dennis Stanton Avery and Sally Tsui Wong-Avery Director of Research at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Founder of the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at Cambridge, his other books for the general reader include, the essay collection and The Universe in a Nutshell.
Stephen Hawkins is considered as the most intelligent man on the face of the earth by many.
In 1963, Hawking contracted motor neurone disease and was given two years to live. Yet he went on to Cambridge to become a brilliant researcher and Professorial Fellow at Gonville and Caius College. From 1979 to 2009 he held the post of Lucasian Professor at Cambridge, the chair held by Isaac Newton in 1663. Professor Hawking has over a dozen honorary degrees and was awarded the CBE in 1982. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the US National Academy of Science. Stephen Hawking is regarded as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Einstein.
 I compiled 10 interesting facts about stephen hawkins and also shared a video with more facts.


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(1) He was initial married to Jane Wilde, after they had 3 kids they got separated and he married  Elaine Mason.
(2) He is married with 3 children namely, Lucy Hawking, Timothy Hawking, and Robert Hawking
(3) He is a co-founder at Microsoft Research
(4) His net wroth was estimated to be $20 million by the famous Forbes Magazine as of Nov 17, 2016.
(5) He is suffering from a motor neuron diseases which usually makes the organs of the body incapable to perform any voluntary action. known as Quadriplegia,.
(6) Hawking became a member of the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge in 1968 and the discoveries of cosmologist, Roger Penrose, on black hole really fascinated him as he himself was working on the phenomena that began the Universe.
(7) Hawking gained the international prominence for the first time in 1988 with the publication of ‘A Brief History of Time’. It was meant to be a simplified version of cosmology for the masses and became an instant bestseller.
(8) Hawking visited Moscow in 1973 and his discussions with Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich and Alexei Starobinsky helped him to come up with ‘Hawking radiation’. In the following year, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society.
(9) In 1970, Hawking discovered the second law of black hole dynamics— that the event horizon of a black hole can never get smaller. Along with, James M. Bardeen and Brandon Carter, he proposed the four laws of black hole mechanics.
(10) Education: 1962 - University of Oxford, 1966-03 - Trinity Hall, Cambridge, St Albans School, St Albans High School for Girls
Awards:
1978 - Albert Einstein Award
1988 - Wolf Prize
1989 - Prince of Asturias Award
2006 - Copley Medal
2009 - Presidential Medal of Freedom
2012 - Special Fundamental Physics Prize

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