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He was born on January 8, 1942 in Oxford (Great Britain). He was the eldest of four brothers in a family of intellectuals, his father, Frank Hawking, was a physician experienced in tropical disease research, professor at University College Oxfordy.
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It was a mediocre student in high school, in 1959 came to college and graduated with a lackluster record. A scholarship enabled him to graduate studies at the University of Cambridge, where he specialized in theoretical physics and cosmology.
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He traveled to the Middle East and was diagnosed with a disease-related neuronal amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
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He married Jane Wilde, and had three children. After twenty-five years of marriage, they separated. In 1990, he went to live with his nurse.
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His theories on the singularity of the universe, the big bang or explosion original Cosmos, and black holes, revolutionized twentieth-century physics opening new horizons for research.
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Wrote History of Time: From Big Bang to Black Holes (1988). In 1989, Spain was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord. He was awarded the Copley Medal in 2006 and the Medal of Freedom in 2009.
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He started the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics (Lucasian Chair of Mathematics) Cambridge University until his retirement in 2009.
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