The third question after class is to ask Hawking in a wheelchair.

Who is Hawking? He is a brain, a myth, the most outstanding theoretical physicist of our time, a giant in the name of science ... perhaps, he is just a warrior who challenges his fate in a wheelchair.

A wise brain was born.

Stephen Hawking was born in194265438+1October 8th. At this time, his hometown London was shrouded in Hitler's indiscriminate bombing.

Hawking and his sister spent their childhood in several towns near London. Many years later, their neighbors recalled that Hawking was lying in the cradle car, which was very eye-catching, and his head looked very big, which was different from ordinary people-mostly because Hawking's reputation and achievements were far from ordinary people, and neighbors could not help but re-portray the image of gifted children in their memories.

However, in this dull and conservative town, the Hawkins really look different. Hawking's parents both received formal university education. His father is a doctor who studies tropical diseases, while his mother has engaged in many occupations. Residents of small towns are often surprised to see Hawkins driving an old used car across the street to the suburbs-before the car entered the homes of British citizens. However, this strange car expanded Hawkins' freedom of movement.

Hawking is keen to find out the ins and outs of everything, so when he sees a novel thing, he always likes to take it apart and understand the structure of each part-but it is often difficult for him to put it back because his hands and feet are far less flexible than his mind, and even his handwriting is famous in class.

Hawking/Kloc-entered Oxford University to study physics at the age of 0/7. He is still not a hard-working student, and this attitude is consistent with other students at that time. This is a period of confusion for young people after the war-they are tired of everything and feel that there is nothing worth pursuing. Hawking hangs out with his classmates at school, drinks and joins the rowing club. In the long run, he is likely to become an ordinary employee or teacher. However, the disease appeared.

The disease appeared.

Since childhood, sports have never been Hawking's strong point, and he is not good at almost all ball games.

In his third year at Oxford, Hawking noticed that he became more clumsy and fell down once or twice for no reason. Once, he suddenly fell down the stairs for some unknown reason, immediately fell into a coma and almost died.

It was not until 1962 that Hawking was a graduate student in Cambridge that his mother noticed her son's abnormal condition. Hawking, who just celebrated 2 1 birthday, spent two weeks in the hospital. After various examinations, it was diagnosed as "Luger's disease", that is, motor neuron atrophy.

The doctor told him that his body would get out of control more and more, and only his heart, lungs and brain could function. Finally, the heart and lungs will also fail. Hawking was only sentenced to two years in prison. That was at 1963.

At first, the disease deteriorated quite quickly. The blow to Hawking can be imagined. He almost gave up all his studies and research because he didn't think he could finish his master's thesis alive. However, a woman appeared.

The wheelchair appeared.

Hawking's condition is getting worse and worse. 1970, Hawking, whose academic reputation is growing day by day, was unable to walk by himself, and he began to use a wheelchair. To this day, he has never left it.

Hawking, who has been sitting in a wheelchair, works and lives extremely tenaciously.

199 1 In March, Hawking returned to his apartment in Berlin in a wheelchair. When crossing the road, he was knocked down by a car. The left arm was broken, the head was cut off, and 13 stitches were stitched. However, 48 hours later, he returned to work in the office.

On another occasion, he and his friends went to a country house. When going uphill, they turned too hard and the wheelchair fell backwards. I didn't expect the master of gravity to be overturned in the bushes by the gravity of the earth.

Despite the growing physical disability, Hawking still tries to live like an ordinary person and accomplish what he can. He's even lively-it sounds a bit funny. After he was completely unable to move, he still insisted on driving a wheelchair with his only movable finger on the way to the office. In a hotel in Moscow, he suggested that everyone dance. The way he turned the wheelchair in the hall was really a miracle. When meeting Prince Charles, he turned his wheelchair to show off and ran over Prince Charles' toes.

Of course, Hawking also tasted the consequences of "freedom" action. The master of quantum gravity fell from his wheelchair many times under the weak gravity of the earth. Fortunately, every time he stubbornly "stood up".

1985, Hawking underwent tracheal surgery, and since then he has completely lost the ability to speak. It is under such circumstances that he made great efforts to write the famous A Brief History of Time and explored the origin of the universe. Hawking achieved great success, but the reality of life replaced the romance of love, and his marriage with Jane came to an end.

Intuition: Black holes are not black.

Hawking's research object is the universe, but he has never been interested in observing astronomy, and has only observed it several times through a telescope. Compared with traditional scientific methods such as experiment and observation, Hawking's method relies on intuition.

The great achievement of "black hole is not black" comes from the flash of an idea. 1970 1 1 One night in June, Hawking slowly climbed into bed and began to think about the problem of black holes. He suddenly realized that a black hole should have a temperature, so that it would release radiation. In other words, black holes are not that black.

This epiphany, after three years of thinking, formed a complete theory. 1973165438+1October, Hawking officially announced to the world that black holes constantly emit X-rays and gamma rays, which is the famous "Hawking radiation". Before that, people thought that black holes could only swallow but not spit.

From the singularity of BIGBANG to the radiation mechanism of black holes, Hawking has made outstanding contributions to the development of quantum cosmology. Hawking won the Wolf Prize in Physics from 65438 to 0988.

The king of bestsellers: a brief history of time

Hawking's popular science book A Brief History of Time-From BIGBANG to Black Hole has sold as many as 25 million copies worldwide, and has been on the bestseller list since the publication of 1988, setting a bestseller world record. In this book, Hawking tries to explain black holes, the origin and fate of the universe, black holes and time travel in a way that ordinary people can understand.

At the beginning of A Brief History of Time, Hawking pointed out: "I was told that every equation I wrote in the book would halve sales. So I decided not to write any equations. But at the end of the book, I wrote an equation, Einstein's famous equation E=mc2. I hope this will not scare away half of my potential readers. " Now it seems that Hawking is completely worried. Professor Hawking was born in Oxford, England on 1942. He is the most important contemporary general relativist and cosmologist. In 1970s, together with Penrose, he proved the famous singularity theorem, for which they won the Wolf Prize in Physics of 1988. He also proved the area theorem of black holes, that is, the area of black holes does not decrease with the increase of time. This naturally makes people associate the area of a black hole with the entropy of thermodynamics. 1973, he considered the quantum effect near the black hole, and found that the black hole would emit radiation like a blackbody, and the temperature of the radiation was inversely proportional to the mass of the black hole, so that the black hole would gradually become smaller because of the radiation, but the temperature was getting higher and higher, and finally it ended in a last-minute explosion. The discovery of black hole radiation has its basic significance, which unifies gravity, quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics.

1974, his research turned to the theory of quantum gravity. Although people haven't got a successful theory, they have found some characteristics of it. For example, space-time is not flat on the Planck scale (10-33 cm), but in a bubble state. There is no pure state in quantum gravity, the law of causality is broken, and the unknowability rises from classical statistical physics and quantum statistical physics to the third level of quantum gravity.

After 1980, his interest turned to quantum cosmology.

Hawking believes that the contribution of his life lies in that, within the framework of classical physics, the inevitability of black holes and big bang singularities has been proved, and black holes are getting bigger and bigger; However, under the framework of quantum physics, he pointed out that black holes became smaller and smaller due to radiation, and the singularity of the Big Bang was not only smoothed out by quantum effects, but the whole universe also started from here.

Hawking's life is very legendary. In terms of scientific achievements, he is one of the most outstanding scientists in history. His contribution was made when he was confined to a wheelchair by Luger's disease for 20 years, which was really unprecedented. Because his contribution has a far-reaching impact on the concept of human beings, there are many descriptions in the media about how he struggled with total paralysis. Nevertheless, the scene when one of the translators first met him in 1979 is still vivid. It was my first time to attend the seminar on general relativity of Hawking Group in Cambridge. After the door was opened, a very weak electric sound suddenly sounded behind my head. Looking back, I saw a scrawny man reclining in an electric wheelchair and turning on the electric switch himself. The translator tries to be polite and not too surprised, but he is used to being surprised at the degree of disability of people who meet for the first time. He needs a lot of effort to raise his head. Before he lost his voice, he could only speak in a very weak deformed language, and he could only understand it after working and living with him for several months. He can't write, and reading must rely on a page-turning machine. When reading literary works, he must spread out every page on a big desk, and then he drives a wheelchair to read page by page like a silkworm eating mulberry leaves. People have to pay deep respect to the human soul who pursues the ultimate truth with such a strong will. Every day, he drives a wheelchair from his home at No.5 Cambridge West Road, crosses the beautiful Jianhe River and the ancient King's College, and arrives at the office of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics in Silver Street. A slope was specially built in the department to facilitate him to take a wheelchair.

At Cambridge University, which is rich in academic tradition, he currently holds perhaps the highest professorship ever, namely Lucas Professor of Mathematics, who was once held by Newton and Dirac.

Professor Hawking was born in Oxford, England on 1942, which happened to be the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death. Professor Hawking graduated from Oxford University College with a first-class honorary degree in natural science. From 65438 to 0963, Professor Hawking was diagnosed as muscular dystrophy, that is, motor neuropathy, and only two fingers could move all over his body. 1965 received his doctorate in theoretical physics. On March 1974 and 1 Sunday, Professor Hawking published a paper in Nature, expounding his new discovery that black holes are radioactive. Within a few weeks, physicists all over the world were discussing his research work (Hawking radiation was called Hawking radiation). Hawking's new discovery is regarded as the most important progress in the field of theoretical physics for many years. This paper is called "one of the most profound papers in the history of physics". During the period of 1975- 1976, he won six awards, including the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society of London, the 11th Medal of the Vatican Papal Science Society, the Hopkins Award, the Danny O 'Heinemann Award of the United States, the Maxwell Award of the Royal Society of England and the Hughes Medal. From 65438 to 0978, he won the Albert Einstein Prize, the most prestigious prize in physics. From 65438 to 0979, he was appointed as the famous Lucas Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, and was appointed by Newton. 1988, Hawking's amazing work A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to the Black Hole was released. Based on the study of black holes, this paper explores the origin and destination of the universe and answers the questions that human beings have been exploring: Does time have a beginning and does space have a boundary? This is a landmark masterpiece in the history of human science. The book has been translated into more than 40 languages and published more than100000 copies. Professor Hawking's popular speeches are also very famous internationally, with footprints all over the world. He tried to communicate his thoughts with the world through his books and popular speeches. In early 2000, Hawking gave a speech at the White House as part of the Millennium Party. President Clinton cordially met with him and congratulated him. 200 1 10 Another masterpiece, The Universe in the Shell, was published. This book is a companion to A Brief History of Time. In this book, Hawking reveals the great breakthrough in theoretical physics since the publication of A Brief History of Time.

Interestingly, he played himself in the sci-fi series Star Trek Adventures, playing bridge with Einstein and Newton.

Stephen? Personal data of Professor Stephen Hawking

Professor Stephen Hawking is one of the great men with high reputation in the contemporary era, and is called the greatest scientist alive today, Einstein. He took an important step in unifying the two basic theories of physics in the 20th century-Einstein's theory of relativity and Planck's quantum theory. 1989 was awarded the honorary title of British Jazz. He is a student of the Royal Society and a foreign academician of the American Academy of Sciences.

Professor Hawking was born in Oxford, England on 1942, which happened to be the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death. Professor Hawking was diagnosed as muscular dystrophy, that is, motor neuropathy. 1965 received his doctorate in theoretical physics. 1 974 On March1day, Professor Hawking published a paper in Nature, expounding his new discovery that black holes are radioactive. Within a few weeks, physicists all over the world were discussing his research work (Hawking radiation was called Hawking radiation). Hawking's new discovery is regarded as the most important progress in the field of theoretical physics for many years. This paper is called "one of the most profound papers in the history of physics". During the period of 1975- 1976, he won six awards, including the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society of London, the 11th Medal of the Vatican Papal Science Society, the Hopkins Award, the Danny O 'Heinemann Award of the United States, the Maxwell Award of the Royal Society of England and the Hughes Medal. 1978, he won the Albert Einstein Prize, the most prestigious prize in physics. From 65438 to 0979, he was appointed as the famous Lucas Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, and was appointed by Newton. 1988, Hawking's amazing work A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to the Black Hole was released. Based on the study of black holes, this paper explores the origin and destination of the universe and answers the questions that human beings have been exploring: Does time have a beginning and does space have a boundary? This is a landmark masterpiece in the history of human science. The book has been translated into more than 40 languages and published more than100000 copies. Professor Hawking's popular speeches are also very famous internationally, with footprints all over the world. He tried to communicate his thoughts with the world through his books and popular speeches. In early 2000, Hawking gave a speech at the White House as part of the Millennium Party. President Clinton cordially met with him and congratulated him. 200 1 10 Another masterpiece, The Universe in the Shell, was published. This book is a companion to A Brief History of Time. In this book, Hawking reveals the great breakthrough in theoretical physics since the publication of A Brief History of Time.

Stephen william hawking was born in Oxford, England, on June 8th, 1942+65438 (the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death). His parents used to live in north London, but during World War II, Oxford was recognized? It's safer to give birth here. When he was eight years old, his family moved to St. Albans, a small town 20 miles north of London. At the age of eleven, Stephen went to St. Albans School, and then went to the "University College" in Oxford, which his father went to. Although his father wants him to study medicine, he wants to study mathematics. But the university college didn't offer mathematics major, so he chose to study physics. After studying in university college for three years, I was awarded a first-class honorary degree in natural science without much effort. Later Stephen went to Cambridge to do cosmological research. At that time, no one in Oxford was engaged in cosmology research. His mentor is Dennis Simma, although he had hoped that Fred Hoyle, Sir Fred would be his mentor. Fred Hoyle, Sir Fred works in Cambridge. After receiving his doctorate, he first worked as a research assistant at Seth College in gonville, and then as a professional researcher. 1973, Stephen left the school of astronomy and went to the department of applied mathematics and physical theory. Stephen has been a professor of mathematics at Looks since 1979. This position was made by 1663 with the will of Le Frand Henry Lux and the money left by Le Frand? The fund created it. Luke used to be a British MP in the university. Yitzhak Barrow was the first person to get the position of "Luke" professor of mathematics, and then Yitzhak Newton. Stephen Hawking has been engaged in the study of the basic laws of the universe. Together with roger penrose, he discovered that Einstein's general theory of relativity means that space and time start from the singularity of the Big Bang and then gather in a black hole. These results show that it is necessary to combine general relativity with quantum theory, which is another scientific development in the first half of the twentieth century. As a result of this combination, he found that black holes should not be completely black, they radiate outward and eventually evaporate and disappear. Another speculation is that the universe has no edge in the imaginary time and is infinite. This will mean that the formation of the universe is completely determined by scientific laws. His published works include: Large-scale Structure of Time and Space, General Theory of Relativity: Einstein's View of the Century, and 300 Years of Gravity, co-authored with G. F.R Ellis. Stephen Hawking has two bestsellers: His bestseller A Brief History of Time, and later Black Hole and baby universes. Professor Hawking has twelve honorary degrees. /kloc-0 was awarded CBE in 1982, and/kloc-0 was awarded honorary partner in 1989. He won many awards, bonuses and medals. He is a member of the Royal Society and the National Academy of Sciences. Stephen Hawking continued to combine his family life (he has three children and a grandson), his theoretical physics research with extensive travel and lectures.

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