A Hero on wheelchair

“Your illness does not define you.

Your strength and courage does”

Validating these lines, today the “HERO” on wheelchair that travels through the universe in his mind left for his heavenly abode.

Professor Stephen William Hawking was born on 8th January 1942 in Oxford, England, during second world war, exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo. Hawking didn’t have the sort of sparkling early academic career like any Grade-A genius. He even didn't learn to properly read until he was 8 years old, and his grades were average at St. Albans School but he was nick named as “Einstein" due to his creative mind. Later, contrary to his father’s profession and choice for medicine, he pursued physics University College, Oxford and post graduation from Cambridge University. During his first year at Cambridge University, shortly after his 21^st birthday he fell down while ice skating and was diagnosed with “Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)”, the disease robbed him of mobility and speech. Despite of incredible hurdles in form of loss of motor skills, wheelchair-boundation and dependency on a computerized voice system the budding cosmologist was turning more creative. After that Sir Hawking joined research in cosmology at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge and worked on the “Properties of Expanding Universe” In 1979, he was appointed Lucasian Professor at Cambridge, and continued his goal of “complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."

Stephen Hawking authored 122 books on goodreads, the most popular book is A Brief History of Time, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays, The Universe in a Nutshell, The Grand Design and My Brief History and numbers of worthy publications

  His main contribution to the field of physics and cosmology lie in the studies of:

•         The origins of the universe
•         Time
•         The Big Bang theory
•          The universe began with a gravitational singularity
•          Singularities (gravitational and space/time continuum singularities) are more common in the universe than we think
•         Black Hole radiation
•          The universe has no space/time boundaries
•      There is no god

    
Though it’s impossible to sum up Hawking's life in one word, it can be done with one equation:

 It’s a great loss to the scientific community but the thinking of this superman will keep inspiration to many young minds. A BIG “THANK YOU” to a scientist with towering intellect, an infectious sense of humor and the greatest mind of the century.