Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford, the
son of a
special
in
tropic
medicine, and
natur
perhaps, given the
circumstances, he became
interest
in science at a very
young age. By
the time he was 15, he had
decid
to become a
physic
,
because
phys
, as he said,
was the
most
fundament
of
the sciences.
After three years at Oxford Univers
,
when, as he himself admit
,
he did not work very
hard, Hawking got a
first class degree
in natur
sciences;
he then move
on to
do postgradu
study
in cosmology at the univers
of Cambridge. He seem
to be destin
to a brilliant future.
However it was at this point that
doctors diagnos
Stephen as suffer
from motor neurone
disease, a crippl
ill
that usu
leads rapid
to death. Doctors
could see no reason why he
would be any different from other suffer
, and he was told that
he
had little hope of liv
beyond the age of 25;
it looked as if the
fine
mind of his
gener
was about to
be snuff
out.
This was not to be the case.
Against
all the odds, Hawking complet
his doctor
at
Cambridge, then went on to a research post, first
in the Institute of
Astronomy, and then in the Depart
of Appli
Mathemat
and
Theoret
Phys
.
