Stephen Hawking death

was a shock to his family especially for his children Lucy and Robert. They had told in a statement earlier that they were deeply saddened by the fact that their father is no more, and he was a great scientist who had build up a legacy which would live on for many years to come. Professor Stephen Hawking was born in Oxfordshire in the year 1942 and studied at the University of Cambridge and Oxford. But after he had got diagnosed at the age of 22 with a rare form of motor neurone disease, as the doctors had confirmed he just had few years to live. Facing all the odds, he had celebrated his 70th birthday almost half a century later and was termed as one of the most well renowned famous scientists of a modern age In spite of being bound to a wheelchair and completely paralysed, he was unable to speak except through his voice synthesiser, having a keen interest in science, he had written many scientific papers that had earned him equal comparisons to Albert Einstein and Sir Issac Newton. [caption id="attachment_22561" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Stephen Hawking receives the medal of freedom[/caption] Through his career, he had won plenty of awards during which he was mainly recognised for is the best work on black holes and in 1988 had written a book A Brief History of Time [caption id="attachment_22564" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Stephen Hawking with Theory of Everything star Eddie Redmayne[/caption]