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Stephen Hawking

1942 - 2018

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Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an 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. Hawking was born in Oxford into a family of physicians. In October 1959, at the age of 17, he began his university education at University College, Oxford, where he received a first-class BA degree in physics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stephen Hawking is the 5th most popular physicist, the 24th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 18th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Physicist.

Stephen Hawking is most famous for his contributions to physics and cosmology, in particular his theory that black holes emit radiation.

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Among physicists, Stephen Hawking ranks 5 out of 851. Before him are Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, and J. Robert Oppenheimer. After him are Wilhelm Röntgen, Michael Faraday, Niels Bohr, Hans Christian Ørsted, Max Planck, Alessandro Volta, and Albert A. Michelson.

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Among people born in 1942, Stephen Hawking ranks 2. Before him is Muhammad Ali. After him are Joe Biden, Muammar Gaddafi, Martin Scorsese, Aretha Franklin, Amitabh Bachchan, Eusébio, Hu Jintao, Calvin Klein, Ratko Mladić, and Paul McCartney. Among people deceased in 2018, Stephen Hawking ranks 1. After him are Aretha Franklin, George H. W. Bush, Barbara Bush, Ursula K. Le Guin, Kofi Annan, Charles Aznavour, Montserrat Caballé, Ingvar Kamprad, Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Stan Lee.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Stephen Hawking ranks 24 out of 8,785. Before him are George III of the United Kingdom (1738), Lady Jane Grey (1537), Winston Churchill (1874), Charles II of England (1630), James Watt (1736), and Anne, Queen of Great Britain (1665). After him are John, King of England (1166), Richard III of England (1452), John Locke (1632), Ada Lovelace (1815), James II of England (1633), and Henry VI of England (1421).

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Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Stephen Hawking ranks 2. Before him are Isaac Newton (1643). After him are Michael Faraday (1791), J. J. Thomson (1856), James Prescott Joule (1818), Edward Victor Appleton (1892), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), Robert Hooke (1635), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), Owen Willans Richardson (1879), and James Clerk Maxwell (1831).

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