Stephen Hawking

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Stephen Hawking is wheelchair-bound because of ALS.

Stephen William Hawking, CH CBE FRS (born January 8 1942) is one of the world's leading theoretical physicists. Hawking is professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge (a position that Isaac Newton once had). He suffers from ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease, he can not move or talk very well and he uses a wheelchair to move and a special computer to talk for him.

[edit] Publications

[edit] Technical

• The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime with George Ellis
• ...and many more

[edit] Popular

• A Brief History of Time, (Bantam Press 1988)
• Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays, (Bantam Books 1993)
• The Universe in a Nutshell, (Bantam Press 2001)
• ...and many more

N.B. On Hawking's website, he criticises the unauthorized publication of The Theory of Everything and asks consumers to boycott this book.

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