Stephen Hawking

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Black-and-white photograph of Stephen Hawking at NASA's StarChild Learning Center
Hawking At NASA's StarChild Learning Center,c. 1980s
Born(1942-01-08)8 January 1942
Oxford, England
Died14 March 2018(2018-03-14)(aged 76)
Cambridge, England
Resting placeWestminster Abbey
Alma mater
  • University of Oxford (BA)
  • University of Cambridge (PhD)
Known for
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    • Hawking radiation
    • A Brief History of Time
    • Penrose–Hawking theorems
    • Black hole information paradox
    • Micro black hole
    • Primordial black hole
    • Chronology protection conjecture
    • Soft hair (No hair theorem)
    • Bekenstein–Hawking formula
    • Hawking energy
    • Hawking–Page phase transition
    • Gibbons–Hawking ansatz
    • Gibbons–Hawking effect
    • Gibbons–Hawking space
    • Gibbons–Hawking–York boundary term
    • Hartle–Hawking state
    • Thorne–Hawking–Preskill bet
Spouse(s)
Jane Wilde
(m. 1965;div. 1995)
Elaine Mason
(m. 1995;div. 2007)
Children3, including Lucy
Awards
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    • Adams Prize (1966)
    • Eddington Medal (1975)
    • Maxwell Medal and Prize (1976)
    • Heineman Prize (1976)
    • Hughes Medal (1976)
    • Albert Einstein Award (1978)
    • Albert Einstein Medal (1979)
    • RAS Gold Medal (1985)
    • Dirac Medal (1987)
    • Wolf Prize (1988)
    • Prince of Asturias Award (1989)
    • Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1992)
    • Andrew Gemant Award (1998)
    • Naylor Prize and Lectureship (1999)
    • Lilienfeld Prize (1999)
    • Albert Medal (1999)
    • Copley Medal (2006)
    • Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009)
    • Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2012)
    • BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2015)
Scientific career
Fields
  • General relativity
  • quantum gravity
Institutions
  • Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
  • California Institute of Technology
  • Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
ThesisProperties of Expanding Universes (1966)
Doctoral advisorDennis W. Sciama
Other academic advisorsRobert Berman
Doctoral students
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  • Bruce Allen
  • Raphael Bousso
  • Bernard Carr
  • Fay Dowker
  • Christophe Galfard [fr]
  • Gary Gibbons
  • Thomas Hertog
  • Raymond Laflamme
  • Don Page
  • Malcolm Perry
  • Christopher Pope
  • Marika Taylor
  • Alan Yuille
  • Wu Zhongchao
  • 27 others
Websitewww.hawking.org.uk
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