Stephen Hawking has been called the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Albert Einstein . His work concentrates on the puzzling cosmic bodies called black holes and extends to such specialized fields as particle physics , supersymmetry, and...

The theories of British physicist and mathematician Stephen William Hawking (born 1942) placed him in the great tradition of Newton and Einstein. Hawking made fundamental contributions to the science of cosmology--the study of the origins, structure,...

Born on January 8, 1942, three hundred years after the birth of Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking is continuously attempting to synthesize physics as effectively as Newton explained mechanics. Hawking attended Oxford University, where he became very...

English physicist Stephen Hawking has been called the most insightful theoretical physicist since Albert Einstein. His work concentrates on the puzzling cosmic bodies called black holes and extends to such specialized fields as particle physics,...

1942- English Theoretical Physicist Stephen Hawking is arguably the most famous scientist of the second half of the twentieth century. His work on black holes, his best-selling book A Brief History of Time, and his long struggle with Lou...

Black holes, formed by stars that have collapsed under their own weight, are perhaps the strangest physical objects in the universe. Their gravitational fields are so strong that neither light nor matter can escape. At their center are thought to be...

His key scientific works to date have included providing, with Roger Penrose, theorems regarding singularities in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes should emit radiation, which is today known as Hawking...

THE LAST time I saw Robert Hardy on stage it was in Paris, where he was doing a brilliant, bilingual impersonation of Winston Churchill in an epic about De Gaulle. The last time he appeared on television, it was as Kingsley Amis in a...

DURING A WEEK IN MARCH, 1999, was an invited speaker at the American Physical Society Centennial meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. The Society also had me do my Magic Tricks-Science Facts show all over Atlanta that week for Jr. and Sr. high schools, for...

Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says he wants to undertake a zero-gravity flight aboard an airplane this year as a precursor to a journey into space, a newspaper reported Monday."This year I'm planning a zero-gravity flight and to go into space in 2009," he was quoted as...

Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says he wants to undertake a zero-gravity flight aboard an airplane this year as a precursor to a journey into space, a newspaper reported Monday."This year I'm planning a zero-gravity flight and to go into space in 2009," he was quoted as...

In the essay below, Harwood provides an overview of Hawking's life and works.

In the following essay, Adler juxtaposes Hawking's brilliant career with his debilitating illness.

In the following essay, Organ considers the humor in Hawking's writing.