Stephen William Hawking

Stephen Hawking is one of the most important physicists and cosmologists of our time, regarded as the most outstanding theoretical physicist after Albert Einstein, and also known as the "King of the Universe". Hawking was born on January 8, 1942 in Oxford, England, and at the age of 21, he unfortunately suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease (muscular dystrophy lateral sclerosis), which paralyzed his whole body and prevented him from pronouncing his words. 1988, Hawking won the Wolf Prize for Physics; 1989, he won the Prince of Asturias Prize; and 2006, he was awarded the Prize for Contribution to Popularization of Science.