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Stephen Hawking
In 1974 he decided to study the effects quantum mechanics might have on particles near a black hole. He theorized that particles are created in pairs, black and white for example. The black particle is absorbed by the black hole, the white particle, now without a partner, appears as radition.
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In 1979 he was awarded the same chair, Professor of Mathematics, as Sir Isaac Newton. In 1993, he published a landmark book entitled A Brief History of Time. |
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Born in 1942. Attended Oxford University and then Cambridge. At the age of 21, Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with ALS (aka: Lou Gehrig's Disease.) He would gradually lose the use of his muscles, except for his heart, his liver and his brain. Despite his disability, he had decided to focus his efforts on cosmology, the study of very large things, like our universe, black holes and the beginning of time.
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