Stephen William Hawking, CH CBE FRS (born January 8 1942) is an English theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is one of the world's leading theoretical physicists. A theoretical physicist is someone who uses information from experiments to make predictions about the world. Hawking writes many science books for the public, or the people who are not scientists.
Hawking is a professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge (a position that Isaac Newton once had).
He has ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, and because of that he can not move or talk very well. The illness has gotten worse over the years and he is now almost completely paralyzed. He uses a wheelchair to move and an Intel computer to talk for him.
He is one of the most clever living people.
Children's books.
Note: On, he criticises the unauthorized publication of "The Theory of Everything" and asks buyers to boycott the book.
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