name Stephen Hawking is known today almost everyone, regardless of proximity to the studies mathematics or physics.After all, in addition to a significant contribution to the development of modern physics and cosmology, the scientist famous for popularizing science in his books explaining complex concepts in simple language of the universe.
Stephen Hawking.Biography
future astrophysicist who was born in January 1942.Hawking Stephen William was the first child of a researcher Medical Center Frank Hawking and his wife - Isabel Hawking.Later, the family appeared two girls.After school, the eldest son goes to the University of Oxford in 1959.He graduated in 1962, Stephen Hawking continues to own education and research activities in the field of cosmology has in Cambridge.Today all know the image is almost completely paralyzed scientist confined to a wheelchair and able to communicate only with the device, the voice synthesis.This problem manifested itself at a young age.In the third year of university, when he was 21, the young man noticed that there is a problem with the spatial coordination.A survey of doctors gave disappointing results: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and two years of life.However, the young man has not only survived, but has retained an interest in the outside world, which gave him the strength to employment in scientific activities.
Unfortunately, completely overcome the disease is not managed, and the age of thirty Stephen Hawking was confined to a wheelchair.Moreover, the disease inevitably progresses to the present day, the nerve for nerve, muscle for muscle immobilizing scientist.However, this did not prevent him to lead an active social and personal life.In 1965, he married his university friend Jane Wilde, who later gave him three children.In 1979, Stephen Hawking became the head of the Department of Theoretical Physics and Applied Mathematics at Cambridge University.This same department once headed by Isaac Newton.In 1991, the scientist is going through a divorce from Jane.And four years later, he married Alvin Mason, with whom he lived until 2006.
scientific contribution
Such mass Stephen Hawking has achieved fame thanks to not only its scientific developments, but rather the popularization of modern science among the public
.World popularity brought him published in 1988, "World History of Time."This original book that tells of the complicated theories of our universe device philistine popular language, without the use of complex mathematical formulas.As for the scientific field, the basic physics research accounted for quantum gravity and astrophysics.For example, Stephen Hawking is a leading researcher of mysterious black holes of space.He also made a significant contribution to the development of The Big Bang Theory, according to which our universe emerged without cause, suddenly and out of nowhere.The initial state of the world described by the notion of singularity, where all the modern space was once concentrated in one tiny point of infinite density and temperature.The Large Hadron Collider is not coming down today on the lips of the media is also partly the result of the activities of Hawking.It was created to study the smallest particles (bosons, quarks), the search for new elements and possibly new fundamental laws of physics at the micro level.
