Famous scientists

 Famous scientists: Steven Hawking 

Steven Hawking was born in Oxford into a family of doctors and He began his university education at University College, Oxford, in October 1959 at the age of 17, where he received a first-class BA  degree in physics. He began his graduate work at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in October 1962, where he obtained his PhD degree in applied mathematics and theoretical physics, specialising in general relativity and cosmology in March 1966. Hawking was later diagnosed with an early-onset slow-progressing form of motor neurone disease that gradually paralysed him over the years. he lived to the age of 76 and died in 2018, after living with motor neurone disease for more than 50 years.

 He was famous for the invention of the Hawking radiation theory and it theorises that black holes will eventually evaporate after time.