Wednesday, 14 March 2018

10 Cool Things You Didn't Know About Stephen Hawking

    Without wasting your time i will start with some interesting facts


                         

1.  Hawking was born on Jan. 8, 1942, which just happened to be the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death.





2.  When he was 9 years old, his grades ranked among the worst in his class. With a little more effort, he brought those grades up to about average, but not much better.





   These days, we know Hawking as a brilliant mind whose theories are difficult for a nonscientific mind to grasp

3.  For all his interest in science, Stephen didn't care for biology. He has said that he found it to be "too inexact, too descriptive"




4.  At the St. Albans High School, he built a computer along with his group of friends and his Mathematics teacher Dikran Tahta from an old telephone switchboard, clock parts, and other recycled components.





5.  Stephen was very adventurous and witty in his youth and was a part of the rowing team at the University College, Oxford.




6.  When he was pursuing his Ph.D. at the Cambridge, he fell in love with Jane Wilde who was a friend of his sister.



7.  In 1963 at the age of 21, Stephen was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a motor neuron disease and doctors told him that he had only 2 years to live.



8.  His father, Frank, and mother, Isobel, both attended the University of Oxford. He had two younger sisters (Philippa & Mary) and one adopted brother, Edward. They often spent their meals silently reading a book.



9. When asked which was the most mysterious thing in the world, Hawking replied- its’s women!



10.  In the early hours of March 14, 2018, Stephen Hawking died peacefully at his home in Cambridge. It was coincident that on the day of his death, it was the 30th anniversary of Pi Day, a day for celebrating the mathematical constant pi.




We lost a great one today. Stephen Hawking will be remembered for his incredible contributions to science – making complex theories and concepts more accessible to the masses.

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