Nathan King King 1
Mrs. Ward
Pre-AP English II
29 October 2014
The Theory of Surviving:
Stephen Hawking and his battle with ALS. Some diseases can kill you within days, some can cause pain for years. Some diseases are curable, some are not. ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) is a disease where it slowly melts your body muscles like a candle. ALS was widely discovered by Americans whenever beloved baseball player Lou Gehrig contracted it (RVWfoundation.org, Biography). ALS also affected another famous figure, the one who I am writing this paper about, Stephen Hawking. Stephen Hawking is a cosmologist whose life has been …show more content…
Stephen Hawking first saw the light of the world on January 8, 1942 (biography.com, Stephen Hawking Biography). He was a child who had an enormous amount of interest in science and the sky. He was born on the three hundredth anniversary of the death of Galileo (hawking.org, Brief Biography). Steven attended St. Albans school and then went on to go to college at Oxford University. Hawking stuck to his heart whenever he decided what he wanted to study at Oxford, going with Mathematics. His father would have rather had Stephen study about medicine (hawking.org, Brief Biography). There was a problem with what he wanted to study, Oxford didn’t provide Mathematics. Stephen then had to once again decide what he was going to study. He went with Physics (hawking.org, Brief Biography). It took Stephen three years for him to earn a degree in Natural Science (even though he didn’t much work). Cosmology was appealing to Stephen so he went to Cambridge to study Cosmology (hawking.org, Brief Biography). Hawking eventually gained his Ph.D. After he gained his Ph.D. he became Professional Fellow at a college (hawking.org, Brief …show more content…
Stephen eventually left the Institute of Astronomy in 1973. Six years passed until Hawking became Lucasian Professor of Mathematics for 30 years (hawking.org, Brief Biography). Hawking made many great scientific advancements. An advancement made by Hawking was that the Theory of Relativity would have a beginning. This beginning was the Big Bang. The ending of the theory would be by black holes (hawking.org, Brief Biography). Many of Hawking’s hours were spent working on basic laws of the universe (hawking.org, Brief Biography). More of Hawking’s theories helped him discover that there was a need to combine General Relativity and the Quantum Theory (hawking.org, Brief Biography). Stephen was a very brilliant scientist. “Cosmologist Stephen Hawking is regarded as
Mrs. Ward
Pre-AP English II
29 October 2014
The Theory of Surviving:
Stephen Hawking and his battle with ALS. Some diseases can kill you within days, some can cause pain for years. Some diseases are curable, some are not. ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) is a disease where it slowly melts your body muscles like a candle. ALS was widely discovered by Americans whenever beloved baseball player Lou Gehrig contracted it (RVWfoundation.org, Biography). ALS also affected another famous figure, the one who I am writing this paper about, Stephen Hawking. Stephen Hawking is a cosmologist whose life has been …show more content…
Stephen Hawking first saw the light of the world on January 8, 1942 (biography.com, Stephen Hawking Biography). He was a child who had an enormous amount of interest in science and the sky. He was born on the three hundredth anniversary of the death of Galileo (hawking.org, Brief Biography). Steven attended St. Albans school and then went on to go to college at Oxford University. Hawking stuck to his heart whenever he decided what he wanted to study at Oxford, going with Mathematics. His father would have rather had Stephen study about medicine (hawking.org, Brief Biography). There was a problem with what he wanted to study, Oxford didn’t provide Mathematics. Stephen then had to once again decide what he was going to study. He went with Physics (hawking.org, Brief Biography). It took Stephen three years for him to earn a degree in Natural Science (even though he didn’t much work). Cosmology was appealing to Stephen so he went to Cambridge to study Cosmology (hawking.org, Brief Biography). Hawking eventually gained his Ph.D. After he gained his Ph.D. he became Professional Fellow at a college (hawking.org, Brief …show more content…
Stephen eventually left the Institute of Astronomy in 1973. Six years passed until Hawking became Lucasian Professor of Mathematics for 30 years (hawking.org, Brief Biography). Hawking made many great scientific advancements. An advancement made by Hawking was that the Theory of Relativity would have a beginning. This beginning was the Big Bang. The ending of the theory would be by black holes (hawking.org, Brief Biography). Many of Hawking’s hours were spent working on basic laws of the universe (hawking.org, Brief Biography). More of Hawking’s theories helped him discover that there was a need to combine General Relativity and the Quantum Theory (hawking.org, Brief Biography). Stephen was a very brilliant scientist. “Cosmologist Stephen Hawking is regarded as