Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking is a British physicist and author. He was born on January 8, 1942.
Despite suffering from Motor Neurone Disease for most of his adult life he has written books popularizing science. His most famous books are A Brief History of Time,Black Holes and Baby Universes and The Universe in a Nutshell.
Hawking is credited with the development, although not the origin, of the Big Bang Theory of the creation of the universe. He theorized that information can escape from a black hole in the form of Hawking Radiation wherein virtual dual particles will came close to the Event Horizon of a black hole. One half of the virtual dual particle will escape the pull of gravity, taking with it the information of the second virtual particle. It is thought that this eventually will cause the evaporation of the black hole[1]. He is also credited with advancing the understandings of black holes. Since 1979 he has been the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, a post once held by Isaac Newton and Paul Dirac.[2]
Stephen Hawking combines his research with family life and acts to popularize science. He has appeared on The Simpsons and Star Trek: The Next Generation TV shows and contributed vocals through his speech synthesizer to the Pink Floyd album The Division Bell on the track Keep Talking.
Hawking has been divorced twice. [3]
References
- ↑ http://library.thinkquest.org/C007571/english/advance/english.htm
- ↑ Stephen W. Hawking's webpages
- ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1531891/Hawking-and-second-wife-agree-to-divorce.html
