UNIVERSE AND EXPLAINED BLACK
HOLES DEAD AT THE AGE OF 76.
LAUREN SIMONETTI HAS THE DETAILS
LAUREN SIMONETTI HAS THE DETAIL
DETAILS.
>> LAUREN: STEPHEN HAWKING WAS
ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST CURIOUS
MINDS AND GROUND-BREAKING VOICES
IN SCIENCE.
HE DIED AT THE AGE OF 76 AT HIS
HOME IN CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND.
WE TAKE A LOOK AT HIS REMARKABLE
LIFE.
HE WAS GIVEN TWO YEARS TO LIVE
WHEN HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH
A.L.S. WHEN HE WAS JUST 21 YEARS
OLD.
THAT LEFT HIM PARALYZED AND
WHEELCHAIR-BOUND.
IT CAUSED HIM TO LOSE HIS VOICE
SO HE USED A SIN THEY
SO HE USED A SINTHHEY
SO HE USED A SINTHESY
SO HE USED A SINTHESIZER TO
SPEAK.
>> THIS WAS TRUE FREEDOM WHEN I
EXPERIENCED ZERO GRAFT FLIGHT.
>> LAUREN: HE WENT ON A ZERO
GRAFT FLIGHT AT THE AGE OF 65.
HE HE PROBED THE MYSTERIES OF
THE UNIVERSE.
HE RESEARCHED THE SCIENCE BEHIND
BLACK HOLES AND THE BIG BANG
THEORY AND HIS LIFE WAS MADE
INTO A MOVIE, THE
INTO A MOVIE, "HE
INTO A MOVIE, "THE THEORY OF
EVERYTHING" IN 2014.
>> SO THIS BLACK HOLE AT THE
BEGINNING OF TIME, BRILLIANT,
BRILLIANT, STEPHEN.
WELL DONE.
>> LAUREN: HE HELD A POSITION OF
PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.
THAT WAS A POST THAT WAS ALSO
HELD BY SIR ISAAC NEWTON.
HAWKING ONCE SAID IF GIVE THE
CHANCE TO MEET NEWTON OR MARILYN
MONROE, HE WOULD GO WITH
