Stephen Hawking: Revolutionary Physicist
For my second book blog I will be talking about one of the greatest minds we’ve ever had and that is Stephen Hawking. Sadly Stephen has recently passed away he will me missed by many and he may be gone but he will never be forgotten. Stephen was born on January 8th 1942 in Oxford England he had two sisters named Mary and Philippa and when Stephen was 13 his younger brother was adopted. As a child Stephen lived in an old house that wasn’t in good shape although at times they found their home scary they also thought that it was good place for adventure. Stephen’s family may have seemed like very smart people Stephen’s friends always said that they were so smart that their speech couldn’t keep up with their thoughts and that’s why they shuddered. But they were also very odd such as during dinner the family would instead of talking to each other they would be reading books as the ate. What got Stephen into astronomy was when his father introduced him to the subject and every night his family would look outside at the stars with their telescope.
Stephen went to school at St. Albans School which in the first year when was third from the bottom of his class but by his third year his studies improved and was part of the top group of students. Ever since Stephen was about nine years old he knew he wanted to be a scientist he loved to find out how something worked often taking apart clocks and radios to find out how they work. But this would lead on to something greater in 1958 just when Stephen was 16 him and his friends built a computer made out of the insides of clocks and an old telephone switchboard. In 1959 when he was 17 Stephen made his way to Oxford and the transition from college life was difficult for Stephen none of his friends went to Oxford and everyone was older than he was which caused him to be lonely and bored. Stephen’s time at Oxford was so simple for him that the average amount of time he spent studying was an hour a day which in total is about 1,000 hours. At the end of his third year he was at the borderline of getting a second class degree and a first class degree which he would had to go to an interview to determine which degree he would get and he told them “If you award me a first I will go to Cambridge. If I receive a second I shall stay at Oxford so I expect you will give me a first” and he was right he was given a first class degree and prepared to go to Cambridge in the fall of 1962.
But sadly in early 1963 Stephen found out that he had ALS which caused him to go into a deep depression but this didn’t mean that he had nothing good in his life because he soon met Jane Wilde which not long after knowing each other they became engaged and finally married in 1965. Just two years later they had their first child named Robert. Then in 1970 they had their second child Lucy but that’s not all that happened in 1970 it was always the year in which Stephen had to start being in a wheelchair not long after in 1973 Stephen published his first book “The Large Scale Structure of Space Time” finally in 1979 they had their third child Timothy. Stephen also made some great breakthroughs in his life such as the history of the universe and learning that black holes aren’t actually black they just emit radiation but in 1995 he ended up leaving his wife for one of his nurses Elaine Mason which he ended up leaving as well in 2006. But sadly on March 14th 2018 Stephen Hawking passed away he was a great scientist and will be remembered for all of time.
Stephen went to school at St. Albans School which in the first year when was third from the bottom of his class but by his third year his studies improved and was part of the top group of students. Ever since Stephen was about nine years old he knew he wanted to be a scientist he loved to find out how something worked often taking apart clocks and radios to find out how they work. But this would lead on to something greater in 1958 just when Stephen was 16 him and his friends built a computer made out of the insides of clocks and an old telephone switchboard. In 1959 when he was 17 Stephen made his way to Oxford and the transition from college life was difficult for Stephen none of his friends went to Oxford and everyone was older than he was which caused him to be lonely and bored. Stephen’s time at Oxford was so simple for him that the average amount of time he spent studying was an hour a day which in total is about 1,000 hours. At the end of his third year he was at the borderline of getting a second class degree and a first class degree which he would had to go to an interview to determine which degree he would get and he told them “If you award me a first I will go to Cambridge. If I receive a second I shall stay at Oxford so I expect you will give me a first” and he was right he was given a first class degree and prepared to go to Cambridge in the fall of 1962.
But sadly in early 1963 Stephen found out that he had ALS which caused him to go into a deep depression but this didn’t mean that he had nothing good in his life because he soon met Jane Wilde which not long after knowing each other they became engaged and finally married in 1965. Just two years later they had their first child named Robert. Then in 1970 they had their second child Lucy but that’s not all that happened in 1970 it was always the year in which Stephen had to start being in a wheelchair not long after in 1973 Stephen published his first book “The Large Scale Structure of Space Time” finally in 1979 they had their third child Timothy. Stephen also made some great breakthroughs in his life such as the history of the universe and learning that black holes aren’t actually black they just emit radiation but in 1995 he ended up leaving his wife for one of his nurses Elaine Mason which he ended up leaving as well in 2006. But sadly on March 14th 2018 Stephen Hawking passed away he was a great scientist and will be remembered for all of time.
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