At the age of 22 after being diagnosed with a rare form of motor neurone disease. He was given only a few years to live. March 14, 2018 early hour of Wednesday Professor Stephen Hawking died peacefully at his home in Cambridge
at the age of 76.
He doesn’t need any introduction. He was one of THE most popular famous scientist of the word. He was one of the brilliant and extraordinary mind of our time. It is a mammoth tusk to write about him. Here are some facts about his life and work –
- Diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 1963 and given two years to live. He was only 21 years old then !
- Became the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the Cambridge – a post once held by Sir Isaac Newton in 1979.
- Published his “A Brief History of Time” in 1988. Sold more than 10 million copies.
- In the late 1990s, he was reportedly turned down knighthood offer. He had issues with the government abou their funding for science.
- He became the first quadriplegic to experience weightlessness in 2007 on board the modified plane specially designed to simulate zero gravity.
- He died on Mar 14, 2018. Coincidently 14th of March is also called as the “Pi Day”.
He once wrote – he had motor neurone disease for practically all his adult life. But it had not stopped him having an attractive family and being successful in his work. It shows, that one need not lose hope.
Author- Rubayat M.
