Steven Hawking, a leading physicist and prominent English scientist and director of research at the Center for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge, was born on January 8, 1942 in the University of Oxford, UK.
Studying
Steven Hawking arrived at Oxford University College at the age of seventeen to study natural science with emphasis on physics. From then on, he became interested in astrophysics and cosmology because he found himself in a curious curiosity to discover the mystery of the stars and the beginning and accomplishment of the cosmos.
In the final year of studying at Hawking, Oxford was hit by stairs and headed to the ground. As a result, he had lost some memory.
Sickness
At the age of twenty-one, his father decided to take him to the hospital for examination. The experiments performed on her showed very rare and irreversible disease called "amyotrophic lateral sclerosis" (ALS). That year, the doctors told her that she would not be alive for two years. It affects part of the spinal cord and the brain and the nervous system, gradually destroying the nerves of the body, and, by weakening the muscles, creates a general paralysis, in which case the ability of any movement is lost.
He said about his health: when I first detected my disease, ALS, I had two years to live. Now, after 45 years since then, I still have a good time.
Steven Hawking's thesis, titled "The Properties of Existing Worlds" was written in 1966 and is available to the public. Hawking wrote an 134-page study at the age of 24 when he was a masters student at Hal Trinity Cambridge.