Stephen Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford, England. When Hawking was young, he showed a strong passion for science and the sky. When he was 21, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS. ALS is a very progressive disease that attacks nerve cells that are responsible for controlling muscles that we are able to control. ALS changed how Stephen Hawking would live forever.
Stephen Hawking is a well know British theoretical physicist, a person who uses math to describe