LESSER KNOWN FACTS ABOUT STEPHEN HAWKING

LESSER KNOWN FACTS ABOUT STEPHEN HAWKING

Stephen Hawking is one of the most intelligent humans to have ever walked the earth who recently passed away. Here are some lesser known facts about him.

Stephen loved math at a young age, but his father wanted him to study medicine at college.he eventually went on to study physics at the Oxford University because of mathematics wasn't a major.

Hawking didn't learn to read well until he was 8 years old, and by his own confession, he was a lazy student all the years he was at Oxford University.

Stephen Hawking is a genius but his life started and ended on dates of relating to others geniuses. He was born on galileo's 300th death anniversary and died on Albert Einstein's birthday.

 In 1963, Hawking was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and should have only survived 3 years, but he lived on for another fifty years instead.

Stephen dreamed of writing a physics book that the general public could understand and wrote it with his speech synthesizer and assistance from his students, The result was "A Brief History of Time" Published in 1988.

After undergoing a tracheotomy Hawking lost his voice and required 24-hour care. Thankfully in 1985, a Californian computer programmer caught wind of his condition and made a computer to help him speak with his head and eye movement.

Hawking married twice. The first was the mother of his three children, but that ended in divorce in 1990, He left his wife for his nurse, Elaine Mason,

However, she filed for divorce with him in 2006

To Prove backward time travel probably wasn't possible, Stephen Hawking hosted a party for time travelers, and no one came, which was the point. he even sent invitations after the party ended.

Stephen's Ph.D. doctoral thesis was called Properties of the Expanding Universe" It basically tries to show how this universe could be created in mathematical terms, starting with the big bang when it was made available online, website hosting the thesis crashed.

Hawking claimed to be an atheist and did not believe in the personal god, heaven, or the afterlife. Despite this is still claimed the universe and life had meaning.

Not only was Stephen Hawking a famous scientist, but he also appeared on several television shows including Star Trek, the Simpson, and The Big Bang Theory.

Hawking was very vocal about how the world would end, of his theory he claimed artificial intelligence nuclear war pandemics, climate change or over-population will end humanity. He was also a big proponent of finding a new planet to live on.


At the age of 65, Stephen flew up in space shuttle to experience Zero Gravity. he was weightless for a total of 4 minutes.

Stephen Has an equation named after him called 'Hawking's equation' the formula is a centerpiece for our understanding of black holes. he said he wanted it engraved on his tombstone.

Along with Jim Hartle, Hawking came up with boundless universe theory in 1983. it claims universal gas no boundaries but it also contained entity 

Stephen made bet with the fellow physicist John pre-skill in 1997 that information was lost in black holes pre-skill agreed and set information can escape them in 2004 Hawkings admitted he was wrong 

In 1985 he suffered a bout of ammonia and almost died his doctors offered to take him off life support but his wife refused thankfully he survived and recovered enough to finish 'A Brief History of Time'

 Stephen received several awards and distinctions including the Albert  Einstein award, the Hughes medals from the Royal Society,  and Presidential medal of freedom by Barack Obama

 Hawking was also a children's book author, he and his daughter Lucy co-wrote  a series of children's books the first one is called 'George secret key' to the universe 4 more books were published in the series

Among other physicists like Neil Degrasse Tyson, Stephen also supported the 'multiverse 'theory which suggests we are just to one of the several parallel universes out among the Cosmos

This man changed the way the world works by becoming a celebrity scientist and brought respect for science among millions of people