Person    | Male  Born 8/1/1942  Died 14/3/2018

Stephen Hawking

Categories: Science, Seriously Famous

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

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Paralympic flame - 2012 - Havengore

London 2012 Paralympics In the late afternoon of 29th August 2012 Havengore h...

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Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage

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Thomas Young

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Atlas Dyeworks

Atlas Dyeworks

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Dr Alphonse Normandy

Dr Alphonse Normandy

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Dmitri Mendeleev

Dmitri Mendeleev

Born Siberia. Earlier versions existed but in 1869 he published the first widely recognized periodic table of elements.

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