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Leta 1942 se je v Oxfordu v Angliji rodil slavni teoretski fizik Stephen William Hawking.
Rodil se je očetu Franku, biologu raziskovalcu, in materi Isobel Hawking. Že od malega se je zanimal za znanost, zato se je vpisal na študij matematike na univerzo v Oxfordu. A se je kmalu usmeril v fiziko.
Po končanem študiju matematike se je preusmeril na astronomijo, leta 1962 pa je začel študirati na Cambridgeu, kjer je poleg astronomije študiral še kozmologijo. Kmalu zatem je zbolel za boleznijo gibalnih nevronov, zaradi katere je skoraj povsem ohromel.
Njegovi glavni področji raziskovanja sta teoretična kozmologija in kvantna gravitacija. Je vodilni raziskovalec teorije črnih lukenj in nastanka vesolja. Hawking je na dokaj presenetljiv način dokazal, da črne luknje izhlapevajo, ko se dva povezana osnovna delca, delec in antidelec, ločita s singularnostjo, kar enemu izmed njiju omogoči, da se iztrga ven iz dogodkovnega obzorja. Vendar pa je ocenjen čas spet velikanski, saj bi črna luknja z maso Sonca izhlapevala 10 na 60 potenco, svoj obstoj pa bi končala v spektakularni eksploziji, s katero bi lahko nastalo novo vesolje z bolj ali manj istimi konstantami.
Za svoje delo in znanstvene dosežke je leta 2006 dobil Copleyjevo medaljo, najuglednejše priznanje, ki jo podeljuje Kraljeva družba iz Londona.

Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking je zaradi svoje teorije o vzporednih vesoljih nastopal tudi v kultnih Zvezdnih stezah. Foto: EPA


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Stephen Hawking

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Stephen Hawking
CBE
black and white photo of Hawking in a chair, in an office.
Stephen Hawking at NASA, 1980s
BornStephen William Hawking
8 January 1942 (age 71)
Oxford, England
ResidenceUnited Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Fields
Institutions
Alma mater
Doctoral advisorDennis Sciama
Other academic advisorsRobert Berman
Notable students
Known for
Influences
Notable awards
Spouse
  • Jane Wilde
    (m. 1965–1991, divorced)
  • Elaine Mason
    (m. 1995–2006, divorced)
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author. Among his significant scientific works have been a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularities theorems in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. Hawking was the first to set forth a cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. He is a vocal supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and a recipient of thePresidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. Hawking was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge between 1979 and 2009.
Hawking has achieved success with works of popular science in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general; his A Brief History of Time stayed on the British Sunday Times best-sellers list for a record-breaking 237 weeks. Hawking has a motor neurone disease related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a condition that has progressed over the years. He is almost entirely paralysed and communicates through a speech generating device. He married twice and has three children.

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Early life and education

Stephen Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 to Frank and Isobel Hawking.[1][2] Despite family financial constraints, both parents had attended Oxford University, where Frank had studied medicine and Isobel Philosophy, Politics and Economics.[2] The two met shortly after the beginning of the Second World War at a medical research institute where Isobel was working as a secretary and Frank as amedical researcher.[2][3] Hawking's parents lived in Highgate but as London was under attack during the Second World War, his mother went to Oxford to give birth in greater safety.[4] He has two younger sisters, Philippa and Mary, and an adopted brother, Edward.[5]Hawking began his schooling at the Byron House School; he later blamed its "progressive methods" for his failure to learn to read while at the school.[6]
In 1950, when his father became head of the division of parasitology at the National Institute for Medical Research, Hawking and his family moved to St Albans, Hertfordshire.[6][7] The eight-year-old Hawking attended St Albans High School for Girls for a few months; at that time, younger boys could attend one of the houses.[8][9] In St Albans, the family were considered highly intelligent and eccentric.[6][10] They lived a frugal existence in a large, cluttered, and poorly maintained house, and travelled in a converted London taxicab.[11][12] The family placed a high value on education, with regular trips to museums, and meals spent with everyone reading in silence.[6] During one of Hawking's father's frequent absences working in Africa,[13] the rest of the family spent four months in Majorca visiting his mother's friend Beryl and her husband, the poet Robert Graves.[8] On their return to England, Hawking attended Radlett School for a year[9] and from September 1952, St Albans School.[14] Hawking's father wanted his son to attend the well-regarded Westminster School, but 13-year-old Hawking was ill on the day of the scholarship examination. His family could not afford the school fees without the financial aid of a scholarship, so Hawking remained at St Albans.[15][16] As a positive consequence, Hawking remained with the close group of friends with whom he enjoyed board games, the manufacture of fireworks, model aeroplanes and boats,[17] and long discussions about Christianity and extrasensory perception.[18] From 1958, and with the help of the mathematics teacher Dikran Tahta, they built a computer from clock parts, an old telephone switchboard and other recycled components.[19][20]
Although at school he was known as "Einstein", Hawking was not initially successful academically.[21] With time, he began to show considerable aptitude for scientific subjects, and inspired by Tahta, decided to study mathematics at university.[22][23][24] Hawking's father advised him to study medicine, concerned that there were few jobs for mathematics graduates,[25] and wanted Hawking to attend University College, Oxford, his own alma mater. As it was not possible to read mathematics there at the time, Hawking decided to study physics and chemistry, and despite his headmaster's advice to wait till the next year, took the scholarship examinations in March 1959.[23][26] After performing well on the exams and interviews, University College accepted Hawking and offered him a scholarship.[26][27]

University studies

Hawking went up to Oxford in October 1959, at the age of 17.[28] For the first 18 months he was bored and lonely. He was younger than many other students, and he found the academic work "ridiculously easy".[29][30] His physics tutor, Robert Berman, later said "It was only necessary for him to know that something could be done, and he could do it without looking to see how other people did it."[31] A change occurred during his second and third year when, according to Berman, Hawking made more effort "to be one of the boys". He became popular as a lively and witty college member, interested in classical music and science fiction.[28] Part of the transformation resulted from his decision to join the college Boat Club, where he coxed a rowing team.[32][33] The rowing trainer at the time noted that Hawking cultivated a daredevil image, steering his crew on risky courses leading to damaged boats.[34][32]
Hawking has estimated that he had studied for only approximately 1000 hours during his three years at Oxford. These unimpressive study habits made sitting his Finals a challenge, and he decided only to answer questions on theoretical physics rather than those requiring factual knowledge. A first-class honours degree was a condition of acceptance for his plans for graduate study in cosmology at the University of Cambridge with Fred Hoyle.[35][36] Anxious, he slept poorly the night before the examinations and the final result was on the borderline between first and second class honours, making a vivanecessary.[36][37] Hawking was concerned that he was considered a lazy and difficult student, and when asked at the oral examination to describe his future plans said "If you award me a First, I will go to Cambridge. If I receive a Second, I shall stay in Oxford, so I expect you will give me a First."[36][38] He was held in higher regard than he believed: as Berman commented, the examiners "were intelligent enough to realize they were talking to someone far cleverer than most of themselves".[36] After receiving a first-class BA (Hons.) degree, and following a trip to Iran with a friend, he began his graduate work atTrinity Hall, Cambridge in October 1962.[39][40]
Hawking's first year as a doctoral student was a difficult one. He was initially disappointed to find that he had been assigned Dennis William Sciama as a supervisor rather than Hoyle,[41][42] and he found his training in mathematics inadequate for work in general relativity and cosmology.[43] He was also struggling with his health. Hawking had noticed clumsiness during his final year at Oxford, including a fall on some stairs and difficulties when rowing.[44][45] The problems worsened, and his speech became slightly slurred; his family noticed the issues when he returned home for Christmas and medical investigations were begun.[46][47] The diagnosis of motor neurone disease came when Hawking was 21. This was soon after he had met Jane Wilde who was to become his first wife. At that time doctors gave him a life expectancy of two years.[48][49] Hawking fell into a depression, and though his doctors advised that he continue with his studies, he felt there was little point.[50] At the same time, however, his relationship with Jane, an undergraduate in London, was slowly developing, and the couple were engaged in October 1964.[51][52] Hawking later said that the engagement "gave him something to live for."[53] Despite the disease's progression – Hawking had difficulty walking without support, and his speech was almost unintelligible — he returned to his work with enthusiasm and success.[54] Hawking began to develop a reputation for brilliance and brashness when he publicly challenged the work of Fred Hoyle and his student Jayant Narlikar at a lecture in June 1964.[55][56] When Hawking began his graduate studies, there was much debate in the physics community about the prevailing theories of the creation of the universe: the Big Bang and the Steady State theories.[57] Inspired by Roger Penrose's theorem of a spacetime singularity in the centre of black holes, Hawking applied the same thinking to the entire universe, and during 1965 wrote up his thesis on this topic.[58] There were other positive developments: Hawking received a research fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, and he and Jane were married on July 14 1965.[59] He completed his doctorate in March 1966,[60] and his essay entitled "Singularities and the Geometry of Space-Time" shared top honours with one by Penrose to win that year's Adams Prize.[61][60]

Career

1966–75

The first years of marriage were hectic: Jane lived in London during the week as she completed her degree, and the couple had difficulty finding housing that was close enough to the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) that Hawking, with his two sticks, could walk there. They travelled to the United States several times for conferences and physics-related visits. Jane began a PhD program, and a son, Robert, was born in May 1967.[62][63] In his work, and in collaboration with Penrose, Hawking extended the singularity theorem concepts first explored in his PhD thesis. This included not only the existence of singularities but also the theory that the universe may have started as a singularity.[64][65] Their joint essay was the runner up in the 1968 Gravity Research Foundationcompetition, and in 1970 they published a proof that if the universe obeys the general theory of relativity and fits any of the models of physical cosmology developed by Alexander Friedmann, then it must havebegun as a singularity.[66][67][68]
During the late 1960s, Hawking's physical abilities declined once again: he began to use crutches and ceased lecturing regularly.[69] As he slowly lost the ability to use his hands to write, he developed visual methods of working to compensate, including seeing equations in terms of geometry.[70][71] He was, however, fiercely independent and unwilling to accept help or make concessions for his disabilities. Jane Hawking later noted that "Some people would call it determination, some obstinacy. I've called it both at one time or another."[72] He required much persuasion to accept the use of a wheelchair at the end of the 1960s.[73] Hawking was a popular and witty colleague, but his illness as well as his reputation for brashness and intelligence distanced him from some.[72] In 1969, Hawking accepted a specially created 'Fellowship for Distinction in Science' to remain at Caius.[74]
A daughter, Lucy, was born in 1970, and soon after Hawking discovered what became known as the second law of black hole dynamics, that the event horizon of a black hole can never get smaller.[75] WithJames M. Bardeen and Brandon Carter, he proposed the four laws of black hole mechanics, drawing an analogy with thermodynamics.[76] To Hawking's irritation, Jacob Bekenstein, a graduate student ofJohn Wheeler, went further — and ultimately correctly — applying thermodynamic concepts literally.[77][78] In the early 1970s, Hawking's work with Carter, Werner Israel and David C. Robinson strongly supported Wheeler's no-hair theorem that no matter what the original material from which a black hole is created it can be completely described by the properties of mass, electrical charge and rotation.[79][80]His essay titled "Black Holes" won the Gravity Research Foundation Award in January 1971.[81] Hawking's first book The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time written with George Ellis was published in 1973.[82]
Beginning in 1973, Hawking moved into the study of quantum gravity and quantum mechanics.[83][82] His work in this area was spurred by a visit to Moscow and discussions with Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovichand Alexander Starobinsky, whose work showed that according to the uncertainty principle rotating black holes emit particles.[84] To Hawking's annoyance, his much-checked calculations produced findings that contradicted his second law, which claimed black holes could never get smaller,[85] and supported Bekenstein's reasoning about their entropy.[86][84] His results, which Hawking presented from 1974, showed that black holes emit radiation, known today as Hawking radiation, which may continue until they exhaust their energy and evaporate.[87][88][89] Initially, Hawking radiation was controversial. However by the late 1970s and following the publication of further research, the discovery was widely accepted as a significant breakthrough in theoretical physics.[90][91][92] In March 1974, a few weeks after the announcement of Hawking radiation, Hawking was invested as a Fellow of the Royal Society, one of the youngest scientists to be so honoured.[93][94]
Hawking rarely discussed his illness and physical challenges, even — in a precedent set during their courtship — with Jane. [95] Hawking's disabilities meant that the responsibilities of home and family rested firmly on his wife's increasingly overwhelmed shoulders, leaving him more time to think about physics.[96] When in 1974 Hawking was appointed to the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar visiting professorship at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Jane proposed that a graduate or post-doctoral student live with them and help with his care. Hawking accepted, and Bernard Carr travelled to California with them as the first of many students who fulfilled this role.[97] The family spent a generally happy and stimulating year in Pasadena. [98] Hawking worked with his friend on the faculty, Kip Thorne,[99] and engaged him in a bet about whether the dark star Cygnus X-1 was a black hole. The wager was a surprising "insurance policy" against the proposition that black holes did not exist.[100]Hawking acknowledged that he had lost the bet in 1990.[101] Hawking has maintained ties to Caltech, spending a month there almost every year since this first visit.[102]

1975–present

Hawking outside, in his wheelchair, talking to David Gross and Edward Witten
Hawking with string theorists David Gross and Edward Witten at the 2001 Strings Conference, TIFR, India
Hawking returned to Cambridge in 1975 to a new home, a new job - as reader. Don Page, with whom Hawking had begun a close friendship at CalTech, arrived to work as the live-in graduate student assistant; with his help and of Hawking's new secretary, Jane's responsibilities were reduced and she returned to work on her thesis and develop her interest in singing.[103] The mid to late 1970s were a period of growing public awareness and fame for Hawking and his work. He appearing in television documentaries.[104] In 1977 Hawking was appointed a professor with a chair in gravitational physics.[105]
In 1979 Hawking became the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, a position he held for 30 years until he retired in 2009.[106][107] Hawking's inaugural lecture as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics was titled: "Is the end in sight for Theoretical Physics" and promoted the idea that supergravity would help solve many of the outstanding problems physicists were studying.[108] A third child, Timothy, was born in April 1979.[109] In 1982, Hawking participated in the three-week Nuffield Workshop on the Very Early Universe at Cambridge University.[110] He participated in one of four groups that calculated the fluctuations of cosmological inflation.[111]
In December 1977, Jane had met organist Jonathan Hellyer Jones when singing in a church choir. Hellyer Jones became close to the Hawking family, and by the mid 1980s, he and Jane had developed romantic feelings for each other.[105][112] According to Jane, her husband was accepting of the situation, stating "he would not object so long as I continued to love him."[105][113] Jane and Hellyer Jones determined not to break up the family and their relationship remained platonic for a long period.[114] In collaboration with Jim Hartle in 1983, Hawking developed a model, known as the Hartle–Hawking state, a proposal that, prior to the Planck epoch, the universe had no boundary in space-time; essentially before the Big Bang, time did not exist and the concept of the beginning of the universe is meaningless.[115]This replaced the initial singularity of the classical Big Bang models with a region akin to the North Pole. One cannot travel north of the North Pole, but there is no boundary there – it is simply the point where all north-running lines meet and end.[116] While initially the no-boundary proposal predicted a closed universe, discussions with Neil Turok led to the realisation that it is also compatible with an open universe.[117] Later work by Hawking appeared to show that, if this no-boundary proposition were correct, then when the universe stopped expanding and eventually collapsed, time would run backwards.[118] Work by one of his former students, Don Page, led Hawking to withdraw this concept.[119]
Along with Thomas Hertog at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), in 2006 Hawking proposed a theory of "top-down cosmology", which says that the universe had no unique initial state and therefore that it is inappropriate to formulate a theory that predicts the universe's current configuration from one particular initial state.[120] Top-down cosmology posits that in some sense, the present "selects" the past from a superposition of many possible histories. In doing so, the theory suggests a possible resolution of the fine-tuning question.[121]

Thorne–Hawking–Preskill bet

Main article: Thorne–Hawking–Preskill bet
In 1997, Hawking made a public scientific wager with Kip Thorne and John Preskill of Caltech concerning the black hole information paradox.[122] Thorne and Hawking argued that since general relativity made it impossible for black holes to radiate and lose information, the mass-energy and information carried by Hawking Radiation must be "new", and not from inside the black hole event horizon. Since this contradicted the quantum mechanics of microcausality, quantum mechanics would need to be rewritten. Preskill argued the opposite, that since quantum mechanics suggests that the information emitted by a black hole relates to information that fell in at an earlier time, the concept of black holes given by general relativity must be modified in some way.[123] The winner of the bet was to receive an encyclopedia of the loser's choice.[122]
In 2004, Hawking announced that he was conceding the bet because he now believed that black hole horizons should fluctuate and leak information, and gave Preskill a copy of Total Baseball. Comparing the useless information obtainable from a black hole to "burning an encyclopedia", Hawking commented, "I gave John an encyclopedia of baseball, but maybe I should just have given him the ashes".[122]

Personal life

Hawking married Jane Wilde in 1965. Jane cared for him until 1990 when the couple separated.[124] Hawking married his personal care assistant, Elaine Mason, in 1995;[124] the couple divorced in October 2006.[125] In 1999, Jane Hawking published a memoir, Music to Move the Stars, describing her marriage to Hawking and its breakdown; in 2010 she published a revised version, Travelling to Infinity, My Life with Stephen.[126]

Illness

Hawking sitting in his wheelchair inside
Hawking on 5 May 2006, during the press conference at the Bibliothèque nationale de France to inaugurate the Laboratory of Astronomy and Particles in Paris and the French release of his work God Created the Integers
Hawking has a motor neurone disease related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, a condition that has progressed over the years. As of 2012, he is almost completely paralysed and communicates through a speech generating device. Hawking's illness has advanced more slowly than typical cases of ALS: survival for more than 10 years after diagnosis is uncommon.[127][128]
Symptoms of the disease include increasing inability to control physical movements, including vocal functions, and severe coughing spells. In 1970, his difficulty in getting around made a wheelchair necessary.[129] From 1974 he could not feed himself or get out of bed, so graduate students helped, receiving free accommodation in return.[130] His speech became so slurred that he could be understood only by people who knew him well.[130] During a visit to CERN in Geneva in 1985, Hawking contracted pneumonia, which in his condition was life-threatening as it further restricted his already limited respiratory capacity. He had an emergency tracheotomy, losing what remained of his ability to speak.[131] A speech generating device was built in Cambridge, using software from an American company, that enables Hawking to operate a computer keyboard with small movements of his body, and then have a speech synthesiser speak the output.[132]
The speech synthesiser hardware he uses, DECtalk, which has an American accent, is no longer produced.[133] Asked why he has kept the same voice for so many years, Hawking stated that he has not heard a voice he likes better and that he identifies with it even though the synthesiser is both large and fragile by current standards.[134] For lectures and media appearances, Hawking prepares his remarks in advance,[not in citation given] but when he answers questions, he and his system produce words at a rate of about one per minute, so it can take several minutes for him to generate an answer.[135] Although Hawking's setup requires only a few characters to signal a complete word or phrase,[not in citation given] because he can only enter data by twitching his cheek muscles, constructing complete sentences takes time.[135][136] Intel is working on a facial recognition system that will help speed up the writing.[137] The disease-related deterioration of his facial nerves continues such that there is a risk of him acquiringlocked-in syndrome, so Hawking is collaborating with neuroscientists on a brain–computer interface that could translate Hawking's brain patterns into signals which would allow him to select letters and words.[136][137]
Dr. Hawking describes himself as lucky, as the slow progression of his disease has allowed him time to make influential discoveries and has not hindered him because, in his words, of "the help I have received from Jane, my children, and a large number of other people and organisations".[132]

Space and spaceflight

Hawking, without his wheelchair, floating weightless in the air inside a plane
Hawking taking a zero-gravity flight in a "Vomit Comet" in 2007
Hawking has suggested that space is the Earth's long term hope[138] and has indicated that he is almost certain that alien life exists in other parts of the universe: "To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like".[139] He believes alien life not only exists on planets but perhaps in other places, like within stars or floating in outer space. He has also warned that a few of these species might be intelligent and threaten Earth:[140] "If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans".[139] He has advocated that, rather than try to establish contact, humans should try to avoid contact with alien life forms.[139]
In 2007, Hawking took a zero-gravity flight in a "Vomit Comet", courtesy of Zero Gravity Corporation, during which he experienced weightlessness eight times.[141] He was the first quadriplegic to float in zero gravity. Before the flight Hawking said:
"Many people have asked me why I am taking this flight. I am doing it for many reasons. First of all, I believe that life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster such as sudden nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus, or other dangers. I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space. I therefore want to encourage public interest in space."[142]

Religious and philosophical views

In his early work, Hawking spoke of God in a metaphorical sense. In A Brief History of Time he wrote: "If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason – for then we should know the mind of God."[143] In the same book he suggested the existence of God was unnecessary to explain the origin of the universe.[144] Hawking has stated that he is "not religious in the normal sense" and he believes that "the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws."[145] In an interview published in The Guardian, Hawking regarded the concept of Heaven as a myth, believing that there is "no heaven or afterlife" and that such a notion was a "fairy story for people afraid of the dark."[143][146]
At Google's Zeitgeist Conference in 2011, Hawking said that "philosophy is dead." He believes philosophers "have not kept up with modern developments in science" and that scientists "have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge." He said that philosophical problems can be answered by science, particularly new scientific theories which "lead us to a new and very different picture of the universe and our place in it".[147]

Recognition

Barack Obama talking to Stehen Hawking in the White House
U.S. President Barack Obama talks with Stephen Hawking in the Blue Room of the White House before a ceremony presenting him and 15 others the Presidential Medal of Freedom on 12 August 2009.
On 19 December 2007, a statue of Hawking by artist Ian Walters was unveiled at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, University of Cambridge.[148] Buildings named after Hawking include the Stephen W. Hawking Science Museum in San Salvador, El Salvador,[149] the Stephen Hawking Building in Cambridge,[150] and the Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute in Canada.[151] In 2002, following a UK-wide vote, the BBC included him in their list of the 100 Greatest Britons.[152]

Awards and honours

Hawking has been awarded both the Eddington Medal (1975) and the Gold Medal (1985) from the British Royal Astronomical Society, and the Hughes (1976) and Copley (2006) Medals from the Royal Society.[124][153] In 1979 he received the Swiss Albert Einstein Medal[124] and he shared the Israeli Wolf Prize in Physics with Roger Penrose in 1988.[124] In 1981 he was awarded the American Franklin Medal, in 1999 the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society,[154] and in 2003 the Michelson-Morley Award of Case Western Reserve University.[124] He was made a CBE in 1982 and aCompanion of Honour in 1989.[124] In 2009 he received America's highest civilian honour, the Presidential Medal of Freedom,[155] He has also been awarded Spain's Fonseca Prize (2008)[156] and the Russian Fundamental Physics Prize (2012).[157]

Popular publications

Hawking's first popular science book, A Brief History of Time, was published on 1 April 1988[158] and stayed on the British Sunday Times best-sellers list for a record-breaking 237 weeks.[159] It was followed by The Universe in a Nutshell (2001). A collection of essays titled Black Holes and Baby Universes (1993) was also popular. He co-wrote A Briefer History of Time (2005) with Leonard Mlodinow to update his earlier works to make them accessible to a wider audience. In 2007 Hawking and his daughter, Lucy Hawking, published George's Secret Key to the Universe, a children's book focusing on science that Lucy Hawking described as "a bit like Harry Potter but without the magic."[160]

Books

Children's fiction

Hawking and his daughter Lucy on stage at a presentation
Stephen Hawking being presented by his daughter Lucy Hawking at the lecture he gave for NASA's 50th anniversary
These are co-written with his daughter Lucy.

Films and series

In popular culture

Main article: Stephen Hawking in popular culture
Hawking has appeared as himself on episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation,[172] The Simpsons,[173] Futurama,[174] and The Big Bang Theory.[175] His synthesiser voice was used on parts of thePink Floyd song "Keep Talking".[176]
Hawking's early life and the onset of his illness was the subject of the 2004 BBC Four TV film Hawking in which he was portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch. In 2008, he was featured in the documentary series Stephen Hawking, Master of the Universe, for Channel 4. He presided over the unveiling of the "Chronophage" (time-eating) Corpus Clock at Corpus Christi College Cambridge in September of the same year.[177]
On 29 August 2012 he narrated the Enlightenment segment of the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony.[178]

See also

References

  1. ^ Larsen 2005, pp. xiii, 2.
  2. ^ a b c Ferguson 2011, p. 21.
  3. ^ White & Gribbin 2002, p. 6.
  4. ^ Ferguson 2011, pp. 21–22.
  5. ^ Larsen 2005, pp. 2, 5.
  6. ^ a b c d Ferguson 2011, p. 22.
  7. ^ Larsen 2005, p. xiii.
  8. ^ a b Larsen 2005, p. 3.
  9. ^ a b Ferguson 2011, p. 24.
  10. ^ White & Gribbin 2002, p. 12.
  11. ^ Ferguson 2011, pp. 22–23.
  12. ^ White & Gribbin 2002, pp. 11–12.
  13. ^ White & Gribbin 2002, p. 13.
  14. ^ White & Gribbin 2002, p. 8.
  15. ^ White & Gribbin 2002, pp. 7–8.
  16. ^ Larsen 2005, p. 4.
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