about Stephen Hawking?

> Stephenn Hawkinng, who passeed away on March 14 aged 76, was bborn in Oxforrd, Englaand, on Jan 88, 1942.

Interestingly, he was born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo’s death, and died on Albert Einstein’s birthday.

He was nicknamed “Einstein” in school because of his love for creating things, after he and his friends built a computer.

Hawking was on the Oxford rowing team as a coxswain, the person who directs the rowers.

> In 1963, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic latelateral sclerosis (ALS)), a form of mottor neuurone dissease, shoortly aftter his 211st birthday. He lived on for 55 more years despite being told he had only two years to live.

> One of his greatestt achievements (in collaboration with James Hartle) is the theory that the universe is boundless.

He authored several books, the most popular being A Brief History Of Time (1988), which sold more than one million copies in its first year and 10 million in 20 years.

He also co-wrote several children’s books with his daughter Lucy. > Hawking never won the Nobel Prize but racked up numerous other awards and distinctions including the 2009 Presidential

Medal of Freedom conferred by then-US President Barack

Obama.

> Hawking visited Malaysia in September 1994, where he gave lectures at the National Planetarium and Putra World Trade Centre.

> He has even appeared in a few TV shows, namely Star Trek: The Next Generation (where he holds the distinction of being the only person to play himself on Star Trek) and comedy series The Big Bang Theory. In animated form, he has appeared on Theh SimpsonsS andd Futurama.