Stephen Hawking, the brightest mind on the planet, an ace scientist of the league of Newton & Einstein, passed away at the age of 76 in his home in Cambridge.
Hawking inspired millions around the worlds with his books and insights about the Universe, specially on singularity and the black holes…
Hawking was diagnosed with motor neuron disease in 1963 at the age of 21.Doctors gave him 2 years to live , but with determination, will power and intelligence he survived for more than a century after his diagnosis.
Hawking’s first major leap forward came in the year 1970. He with Roger Penrose released their insights about the origin of black holes and came out with a concept of singularity, a point that existed much before the Big Bang.
In 1974 Hawking worked on quantum theory and declared that black holes would emit heat and could finally pop out of existence
Hawking’s superb sprint in radical discoveries lead him to be elected in 1974 to the Royal Society at the age of 32. Five years down the line, he became the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge.
Hawking’s rise to came in 1988, when he published his book-The Brief History of Time, which went on to sell more than 10 million copies and stayed on the Sunday Times bestseller list for more than 230 week’s. He instantly become a scientific rock star of the league of Newton and Einstein.
Hawking married his college girlfriend, Jane Wilde, in 1965, which was two years after his diagnosis with motor neuron disease. The two of them had three children, but their marriage finally broke down in 1991 because of his illness and arguments and domestic issues. During the same years, Hawking’s also lost his voice, which became a major challenge in his relationships…
In 1995 he married Elaine Mason, who was one of the nurses attending to him and their marriage lasted eleven years, finally falling apart in great controversy about assault’s on Hawking…
Of the many awards he won were the Albert Einstein award, the Wolf prize, the Copley medal, and the Fundamental Physics Price. The only one which continuously eluded him was the Nobel Prize
Hawking believed that for humanity to survive and thrive it must venture out into space, and warned against applications of artificial intelligence and autonomous weapons.
His demise was a big blow to modern science and physics. He will surely be missed for generations to come and his predictions would probably pass the test of time.
He leaves behind, his three children, from his first marriage to Jane Wilde, and three grandchildren
