Physicist · 1942 – 2018
Stephen Hawking
Little-Known Facts
- Diagnosed with motor-neurone disease at 21 and given a few years to live, he survived more than five decades.
- He communicated for much of his life through a computerized voice synthesizer.
Myths & Misconceptions
Did Hawking win a Nobel Prize?
He did not; Hawking radiation has never been directly observed, and the Nobel Prize in Physics is generally awarded for experimentally confirmed work.