He spent much of his career studying both the vastest and minutest details of how the universe works, seeking a way to unify Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity with quantum mechanics. He went on to become a member of the Royal Society in 1974 and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge in 1979, just as Sir Isaac Newton had centuries before. Nevertheless, he married his wife Jane Wilde in 1965, with whom he had three children, and completed his PhD. In 1963 he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and was given two years to live. He graduated from Oxford University with top grades in physics, before moving to Cambridge University to study cosmology. Albans in England as the eldest of four children. Stephen Hawking was born to science researchers Frank and Isobel on the 300th anniversary of the death of Galileo Galilei, Jan 8, 1942.
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