The Wheelchair-bound Brilliant Physicist!

Mar 1, 2016
1 min read

Have you watched the movie the "Theory of Everyting?" Well, this movie will tell you about the scientist whose passion for science and sky has led to do remarkable things despite of his disability. In the movie, you'll find out that he'll eventually lose control of his muscles. He would ocassionally fall, trip or slur his speech. Nonetheless, he continued to pursue his passion, writing books, making theories about "black holes" and "time" and even travelling to deliver public lectures.

Name: Stephen Hawking

Birthday: 8 January 1942

Occupation: Physicist/ Scientist

Recognition(s):

"Stephen Hawking has worked on the basic laws which govern the universe. With Roger Penrose he showed that Einstein's General Theory of Relativity implied space and time would have a beginning in the Big Bang and an end in black holes." (Retrieved from <http://www.hawking.org.uk/about-stephen.html>

Disability: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease)

It's described as the loss of muscle conrol due the shutting down of nerves that controlled his muscles. The doctors gave him two and a half years to live.

Publications: A Brief History of Time, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays, The Universe in a Nutshell, The Grand Design and My Brief History.