Stephen William Hawking

• EvolutionistAstrophysicistBorn: January 8, 1942 (Oxford, England) B.A. honors, in Natural Science at University College, Oxford

  Ph.D. from Cambridge University, research in Cosmology, supervised by Denis Sciama

  Professorial Fellow at Gonville and Caius College

  Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, since 1979

  At least twelve honorary degrees

  Fellow of The Royal Society

  Member of the US National Academy of Sciences

  Has Lou Gehrigs syndrome (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)Mother, Isobel Hawking, was a member of the Communist Party. “Stephen has been a leftist all his life.” (Source: top-biography.com)

  “Bertrand Russell was his hero, and he loved to read Kingsley Amis, Aldous Huxley and William Golding.” (Source: top-biography.com)

  QUOTATIONS: “What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.” / “God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you cant see them.”

• Books include: The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime, General Relativity: An Einstein Centenary Survey, 300 Years of Gravity, A Brief History of Time, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays.