The biography Stephen Hawking.
The of celebrity scientist, Stephen Hawking is no longer with us.
 
I am presenting
10 interesting facts about the celebrity scientist.
Number 1: Hawking was born on that day
on the same day after 300 years of Galileo's demise.
And, he left the world on March 14.
on the day, another celebrity scientist
was born.
Hawking followed the path of Einstein and Galilio
to become a pillar of Physical Cosmology.
On top of that, he was called Einstein by other kids at school.
The second fact:
Before he was given Einstein nickname,
when he was 8-9 years old, he was ranked the worst in his class.
3rd fact: At the age of 21
when he was at home in a vacation, he fell from stairs
and fainted.
The doctors suspected he was weak.
Later, he was diagnosed of a rare disease, motor neurone.
That was such a disease,
as it progressed, all the body parts would stop working.
The person can no longer be alive when the respiratory track was blocked.
The doctors had given him a life expectancy of
2 years.
A while before his disease was diagnose,
Hawking had met one of his sister's friend, Jane Wilde.
It was when the love between the two was flourishing, Hawking was diagnosed of the disease.
He only had 2 years to live.
But, the next year, Hawking and Jane decided to get engaged.
That was in October of 1964.
Hawking remembered later:
the engagement gave him "something to live for".
After 9 months of engagement
they got married.
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5th fact:
Hawking fought against the sickness.
He refused to use wheelchair until he couldn't move at all.
Although he was told he only has 2 years to live
Hawking was still walking around for 4-5 years.
After that he started using wheelchair.
He was in his mid-20s at that time.
After that, he started losing his speaking ability.
In his 30s,
it was tough to understand what he said.
A fully disabled Hawking
started using a speak synthesizer device to speak for him.
He could only speak 15 words in a minute.
6th fact:
After 2 years of marrying Jane,
Their first child, Robert, was born.
After 3 years of first child, a daughter Lucy was born.
And after 9 years, a son, Timothy, was born.
At the time of their third child, wife Jane had met an organist Jonathan Hellyer Jones.
After 18 years of meeting, Jane married Jonathan Hellyer.
In an interview, the father of her third son was Stephen Hawking, not Johathan.
The Hawking's marriage started to have problems after the birth of their third child.
7th fact
He had written and published a book
titled 'A Brief History of Time'
The book was very popular, all over the world.
In the book, he had written about the world cosmology, a very complicated topic
in a very simple way.
The book is credited for making Hawking a celebrity.
Hawking started having problem in his married life after the birth of his third son.
Jane was close to the musician.
Similarly, Hawking was having an affair with his nurse.
After 10 years of the birth of his third son,
Hawking left home with to live with his nurse (Elaine Mason).
After 5 years of that event, Hawking and Jane divorced
and performed his second marriage.
But, his second marriage broke in 10 years.
Meanwhile, although married to Stephen,
Hawking's first wife came back to help him.
9th fact
Hawking was not religious.
He used to say, the world is run by scientific theories, not by Gods.
In an interview, he had told, there is no heaven
and there is no after life.
He had told there is nothing like god.
in 2014,
he had told he was an atheist.
10th and last fact:
A lot of films and documentaries about him are made.
The 2014 release film, 'The Theory of Everything'
is based on the biography his wife Jane had written.
I wish, the soul of Stephen Hawking,
the scientist who had faced various hurdles because of his health,
rest in peace.
