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Stephen Hawking
AuthorBooks · Second hand1942-2018
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and science populariser, author of A Brief History of Time. He devoted his career to quantum gravity and black holes while living with ALS from the age of 21.
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Birth
1942
Death
2018
First book
1973
Years writing
53
He was born in Oxford on 8 January 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo Galilei.
At 21 he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease and given two years to live; he lived for another fifty-five.
He held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge from 1979 to 2009, the same one once held by Isaac Newton.
A Brief History of Time sold more than 10 million copies and stayed on the Sunday Times bestseller list for 237 weeks.
He appeared as himself in Star Trek, The Simpsons, Futurama and The Big Bang Theory, popularising his synthetic voice.