Physics cosmology

Stephen Hawking

  • Stephen Hawking is born

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    Hawking attends St. Albans

    It was here Hawking began to develop his interest in mathematics
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    Hawking studies Physics at Oxford

  • Begins research on cosmology and relativity

  • Hawking completes his doctorate

  • Shows black holes can emit radiation

  • Joins the department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics at Cambridge

  • Appointed professor of Gravitational Physics

  • Awarded a CBE by the Queen

  • Made a companion of honor

  • Publishes Stephen Hawking's Universe: The Cosmos Explained

    This book attempted to analyze our world and everything around us
  • Publishes "The Universe in a Nutshell"

    Described the mysteries behind some of the recent breakthroughs in physics
  • Released "On the Shoulders of Giants"

    Analysis of the works of great philosophers and mathematicians such as Sir Isaac Newton and Einstein
  • Hawking solves the black hole paradox

    This is way to complicated to describe here. But he basically solves a problem that had been troubling the global scientific community for years.