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On March 14, 2018, Hawking finally died to ALS, the disease that was supposed to have killed him more than 50 years ago.

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In September 2010, Hawking spoke against the idea that God could have created the universe in his book The Grand Design. Hawking said that belief in God not could be proven with modern scientific theories. In this work, however, he concluded that the Big Bang was the inevitable consequence of the laws of physics. "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing," He said. "Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist."

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In 2005, Hawking authored the even more accessible A Briefer History of Time, which further simplified the original work's core concepts and touched upon the newest developments in the field like string theory.

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A Brief History of Time also wasn't as easy to understand as some had hoped. So in 2001, Hawking followed up his book with The Universe in a Nutshell, which offered a more illustrated guide to cosmology's big theories.

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Stephen Hawking's research on black holes turned him in to a celebrity. Hawking demonstrated that matter, in the form of radiation, can escape the gravitational force of a collapsed star. Another young cosmologist, Roger Pen rose, had earlier discovered groundbreaking findings about the fate of stars and the creation of black holes, which tapped into Hawking's own fascination with how the universe began.

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In 1988 Hawking catapulted to international celebrity with the publication of A Brief History of Time. The short, informative book became an account of cosmology for the masses and offered an overview of space and time, the existence of God and the future. The work was an instant success,

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Stephen Hawking's first wife was Jane Hawking a woman form Cambridge that was studying musical theater.

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One evening, as Stephen Hawking was walking in the courtyard of Cambridge when suddenly he tripped on his faulty foot. When he woke up he was in the hospital, and the doctor told him that he had Motor Neuron Disease  or ALS. The worst part was that the doctor said that he only had one year left...

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During this time Stephen Hawking applied to Oxford for a degree in mathematics but they did not offer that to him, so instead he applied for physics, more specifically cosmology. At his time in Oxford he did not pay a lot of attention to his studies instead he played board games, yet he graduated with honors in natural science and went on to Trinity Hall Cambridge University.

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1963 - 1967 Trinity Hall Cambridge University

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1963 - 1967 Trinity Hall Cambridge University

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Stephen Hawking completed his PhD in cosmology and moved on to teach there. This is where he went on to publish his first book.

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Stephen Hawking and his three siblings were born in to a family of thinkers because both of his parents graduated form Oxford University. It was hard for his parents because they did not have much money and England was dealing with World War II. At an early age Stephen Hawking showed an interest in science and the sky.

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On January 8, 1942 Stephen was born to Isobel and Frank Hawking in Oxford, United Kingdom.