Stephen Hawking
8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018
English theoretical physicist and cosmologist known for his work on black holes and relativity, and for the bestselling book A Brief History of Time. He lived with motor neurone disease for over five decades.
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Proposed Hawking radiation
1974
Showed theoretically that black holes emit radiation.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge
1979 – 2009
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