English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, widely viewed as one of the most prestigious academic posts in the world.
Age 21 Hawking was diagnosed with an early-onset slow-progressing form of motor neurone disease that gradually, over decades, paralysed him, but did not stop his achievements.
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Stephen Hawking
London 2012 Paralympics In the late afternoon of 29th August 2012 Havengore h...
Telegraphic messages were first sent successfully by Sir Francis Ronalds using an eight mile long grid in his back garden in Hammersmith. He tried to interest the Admiralty in his invention, but th...
Born Siberia. Earlier versions existed but in 1869 he published the first widely recognized periodic table of elements.
The International Desalination Association (IDA) is the world’s leading resource for information and professional development for the global desalination industry – and the only global association ...
Amateur astronomer. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1951.Born York.
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