A Brief History of Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking, the British physicist, was born in 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. At 35 he was to occupy the same post at the University of Cambridge as that once held by Isaac Newton, discoverer of the Law of Gravity. Like Galileo and Newton before him, Hawking revolutionised physics, challenging accepted beliefs. But Hawking had to fight not only for his beliefs,...