Stephen Hawking's Kevo

Stephen Hawking, world-renowned physicist and author of the novel A Brief History of Time, was born 300 years after the death of Galileo. His parents' house was in north London, but Hawking was born in Oxford where, during the second World War, it was considered a safer place to have babies. When he was eight, his family moved to St. Albans, a town about 20 miles north of London. When he was older, Hawking attended his father’s alma mater, University College at Oxford. Despite his father’s wishes that he study medicine, Hawking opted for physics (his preferred subject, mathematics, was not offered). After three years and not very much work, he was awarded a first class honours degree in Natural Science.

Since at the time there was nowhere to pursue his research in cosmology in Oxford, Hawking went on to Cambridge where he had hoped to get Gred Hoyle as his supervisor and instead got Denis Sciama. After gaining his PhD, Hawking became first a Research Fellow, and later on a Professorial Fellow at Gonville and Caius College. After leaving the Institute of Astronomy in 1973, Hawking came to the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, and since 1979 has held the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a position once held by Isaac Newton.

Stephen Hawking is perhaps best known for his 1974 discovery that black holes emit radiation, and for his no boundary proposal made in 1983 with Jim Hartle of Santa Barbara. He has published many notable works with other renowned scientific figures, but his more famous works were solo efforts: his best seller A Brief History of Time and his later book Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays. Professor Hawking has twelve honorary degrees, was awarded the CBE in 1982, and was made a Companion of Honour in 1989. He is the recipient of many awards, medals and prizes and is a Fellow of The Royal Society and a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

Hawking continues to combine family life (he has three children) and his research into theoretical physics with an extensive program of travel and public lectures.
Work History
1975- Present Theoretical physicist Cambridge University, England

1979 Lucasian Professor of Mathematics

1977-1979 reader in gravitational physics Cambridge Unversity

(1974) Originated the idea of black holes and "Hawking Radiation"

1974-1975 Distinguished Scholar at California Institute of Technology

1973-1975 research assistant in department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics, Cambridge University

1972-1973 research assistant at Institute of Astronomy

1968-1972 member of Institute of Theoretical Astronomy Cambridge University

1965-1969 Research fellow at Gonville and Caius College
Affiliations
" Royal Society of London (fellow), Pontifical Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (honorary member). "
Awards
Stephen Hawking has also won numerous Awards