Stephen william hawking (Stephen? William? Hawking,1942 65438+1October 8-201March 08 14), ALS patient, a famous British physicist and cosmologist. Patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis are paralyzed and unable to pronounce.
Hawking's main research fields are cosmology and black holes. He proved the singularity theorem and black hole area theorem of general relativity, and put forward the evaporation phenomenon of black holes and the borderless Hawking universe model, which took an important step to unify the two basic theories of physics in the 20th century-relativity founded by Einstein and quantum mechanics founded by Planck.
Hawking is one of the most outstanding physicists after Newton and Einstein, and is praised as "the king of the universe" by the world. 20 17 April, Hawking said that he was more sure than before that human beings should leave the earth 2 1 17 years ago.
On March 4th, 20 18, Stephen Hawking died at the age of 76. His ashes were placed in Westminster Abbey in London, next to Newton and Darwin.