Stephen Hawking Research Paper

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Who is Stephen Hawkings? did you know that in highschool he was near the bottom of his class academically? What about that he lived with Bees? Did you know that he is a victim of ALS? Stephen Hawking's is a cosmology scientist and has done work and discovered things know one would have ever thought of to recognize. What separate him from other scientist? What makes him so special? Stephen hawking's was the first person to show the world that matter in the form of radiation can escape from black holes.
He is atheistic but believes God had to give the world a jumpstart and that the world didn't start from chaos.

Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford England January 8th 1942 same date Galileo died. He was not born in a very wealthy family nor a Very poor family. Stephen has two other siblings Mary and Phillipa and adopted brother named Edward. He attended ST. Albans school. Yet he struggled academically he later attended Oxford University when he was 17 years old. He like math but wasnt
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his first book was called The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time he had help from G.F.R. Ellis with writing the book. Hawking showed scientist what really goes on in black holes. He described when a star collapse and forms a black hole matter can escape through and out of it. Hawking radiation is named after him from his discoveries. A man who used to struggle academically would someday change the world and send curiosity and gain celebrity status through his research. He became a member in the royal society, a group of scientist who are very committed to their research and do remarkable things. and was only 32 years old. He also earned the albert einstein award. Funny how a man with so little interest in life could make life changing facts in the science world. He has written several books. been on numerous TV shows and has even had a couple of movies come out. he is now retired but does some studies on extraterrestrial

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