Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76, foreign media reported Thursday. A spokesman for the Hawking family was quoted in various media as reporting the news.
Stephen William Hawking, born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford, England, is a famous physicist at Cambridge University. His representative works include Brief History of Time, Universe in Fruit Shell, Great Design, etc.Hawking had ALS at the age of 21. He was paralysed, speechless and had only three fingers on his hand to move. Lucas Professor of Mathematics from 1979 to 2009. His major research fields are cosmology and black holes. He proved the singularity theorem and black hole area theorem of general relativity, The black hole evaporation theory and the boundaryless Hawking cosmological model are put forward, which is an important step in unifying the two fundamental theories of the 20th century physics, the relativity founded by Einstein and the quantum mechanics created by Planck.
[Hawking: Im not afraid of death but I dont want to die] Hawking spoke of death in an exclusive interview with The Guardian in 2011, Im not afraid of death, but I dont expect to die quickly. I have so much to do 。 In an interview, Hawking rejected the idea of an afterlife. When asked how we should live, Hawking replied, Find the greatest value in our actions.
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