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Stephen Hawking - Death
March 17 , 2018
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- Renowned British theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking has passed away at the age of 76.
- The physicist suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an incurable degenerative disorder also known as Lou Gehrig's disease that left him almost entirely paralyzed.
- Hawking was diagnosed with the motor neuron disorder when he was 21. He lived with the degenerative disorder for more than 50 years.
- The British scientist was famed for his work with black holes and relativity and wrote several popular science books including ‘A Brief History of Time’, which became a worldwide bestseller.
- In 1974, he became one of the youngest fellows of Britain's most prestigious scientific body, the Royal Society.
- In 1979, he was appointed for the chair of “Lucasian Professor of Mathematics” at Cambridge University.
- His early life was chronicled in the 2014 film "The Theory of Everything"
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