The Life and Times and Trials and Tribulations of Stephen Hawking

The Whirling Ways of Stars That Pass Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo. In October 1962, Stephen arrived at the University of Cambridge to do research in cosmology. No one else was doing work in that field at the time. During his career, he went on to gain many prestigious titles, such as:  Lucasian Professor of Mathematics (1979-2009) and Fellow of the Royal…