His best seller named ‘A Brief History in Time’ has help the world to understand the dark universe that no man knows of its truth. Stephen William Hawkings, his real name, was born on the 8th January 1942 that is 300 years after the death of Galileo. He was born in Oxford, England. His parents’ house was in north London, but during the second world war Oxford was considered a much safer place to have babies. When Stephen Hawkings was eight years old, his family moved to St. Albans, a town about 20 miles north of London. At the age of eleven then Stephen went to St Albans School, and then got admitted into University College in Oxford, his father’s old college. 

In the beginning, Stephen Hawkings wanted to do Mathematics, although his father preferred him to do medicine. His luck wasn’t that well in University College as they don’t offer Mathematics, so he did Physics instead. After three years and not very much work he was awarded a first class honours degree in Natural Science. After obtaining his degree, he went to Cambridge to do research in Cosmology which no one was working on in Oxford at that time. His supervisor was Denis Sciama, although he had hoped to get Fred Hoyle who was working in Cambridge. After he gained his Ph.D. he became first a Research Fellow, and later on as a Professional fellow at Ginville and Caius College. After leaving the Institute of Astronomy in 1973 Stephen Hawkings came to the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, and since 1979 he held the position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics which was once hold by Sir Isaac Newton. Stephen Hawkings is well known for his discovery that black holes emit radiation in 1974 and his no boundary proposal made in 1983 with Jim Hartle of Santa Barbara.

Professor Hawkings has twelve hononary degrees today. He was awarded the CBE in 1982, and was made a Companion of Honour in 1989. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society and a Member of the United States Natinal Academy of Sciences. Stephen Hawkings continues to combine his family life where he has a wife named Jane Wilde and three children, and his research into theoretical physics together with an extensive programme of travel and public lectures around the world today. 

Today, Stephen Hawkings sat slack in his motorize wheelchair using finger to control his  computer to allow him to select words from a series of menus on the screen  in order to communicate with people. Stephen Hawkings had motor neurone disease for practically his entire adult life. The progressive and degenerative nerve disease, previously known as Lou Gehrig's disease, primarily affects the muscles and has rendered him incapable of speech and most independent movement. Whenever Stephen is asked how does he feel about having the disease, he would answer he try to lead as normal a life as possible, and not think about his condition or regret of the things the disease prevents him from doing.


He usually travels with his wife ,stepson, an assistant, secretary and two nurses. Today he gives lectures, attends seminars and giving public talks on his research. Hawkings said doctors decades back had predicted he will die in a few years time. He became more determined to get the most from a life he had previously taken for granted. Today, he is still alive with the assistant of helpers around. He could see, swallow, smile.  Hawkings is known to be a humourous person too while having lectures and public talks. 

Despite Hawkings disabilities due to his disease, he has not given up his life but instead striving on to contribute to the world of science in the field of physics. He once said to his fans,"Nowadays, muscle power is obsolete. Machines can provide that. What we need is mind power, and disabled people are as good at that as anyone else." Stephen Hawkings thinks that even though science is important to him, it could not be much possible to him without the support of his wife and children. It is hard to imagine how Stephen could endure his life for that long and to be sucessful in his researches in Cosmology.