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In 1990, Hawking left his wife, Jane, for one of his nurses, Elaine Mason. The two were married in 1995.
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although he had hoped to get Fred Hoyle who was working in Cambridge.
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The marriage put a strain on Hawking's relationship with his own children, who claimed Elaine closed off their father from them.
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In 2003, nurses looking after Hawking reported their suspicions to police that Elaine was physically abusing her husband.
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Hawking denied the allegations, and the police investigation was called off. In 2006, Hawking and Elaine filed for divorce.
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When and Where Was Stephen Hawking Born?
Stephen William Hawking was born in Oxford, England, on January 8, 1942, the 300th anniversary of the death of Galileo—long a source of pride for the noted physicist.
Stephen William Hawking was born in Oxford, England, on January 8, 1942, the 300th anniversary of the death of Galileo—long a source of pride for the noted physicist.
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After gaining his PhD (1965) with his thesis titled '', he became, first,
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Stephen Hawking’s Family and Early Years
The eldest of Frank and Isobel Hawking's four children, Stephen Hawking was born into a family of thinkers.
The eldest of Frank and Isobel Hawking's four children, Stephen Hawking was born into a family of thinkers.
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His Scottish mother earned her way into Oxford University in the 1930s—a time when few women were able to go to college.
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a research fellow (1965) then Fellow for Distinction in Science (1969) at Gonville & Caius college.
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His father, another Oxford graduate, was a respected medical researcher with a specialty in tropical diseases.
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he won the Adams Prize for his essay 'Singularities and the Geometry of Space-time
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Stephen Hawking's birth came at an inopportune time for his parents, who didn't have much money.
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The political climate was also tense, as England was dealing with World War II and the onslaught of German bombs.
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In an effort to seek a safer place, Isobel returned to Oxford to have the couple's first child.
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Stephen moved to the Institute of Astronomy (1968), later moving back to DAMTP (1973), employed as a research assistant,
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The Hawkings would go on to have two other children, Mary (1943) and Philippa (1947). And their second son, Edward, was adopted in 1956.
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published his first academic book,
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During the next few years,
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Beginning of the Universe
In a March 2018 interview on Neil deGrasse Tyson's Star Talk, Hawking addressed the topic of "what was around before the Big Bang" by stating there was nothing around.
In a March 2018 interview on Neil deGrasse Tyson's Star Talk, Hawking addressed the topic of "what was around before the Big Bang" by stating there was nothing around.
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Stephen was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (1974)
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He said by applying a Euclidean approach to quantum gravity, which replaces real time with imaginary time, the history of the universe becomes like a four-dimensional curved surface, with no boundary.
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Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at the California Institute of Technology (1974).
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The iBrain
In 2011, Hawkings had participated in a trial of a new headband-styled device called the iBrain.
In 2011, Hawkings had participated in a trial of a new headband-styled device called the iBrain.
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He became a Reader in Gravitational Physics at DAMTP (1975)
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