Stephen Hawking: A brief introduction

Name: Stephen William Hawking

Profession: Scientist

Born (Birthday): 8 January 1942

Birth Place: Oxford, England

Fields: Physicist, General relativity, Quantum gravity

Father Name: Frank Hawking

Mother Name: Isobel Hawking

Wife: Jane Wilde (divorced), Elaine Mason (divorced)

Children: Lucy Hawking, Robert Hawking, Timothy Hawking

Awards:

• Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Copley Medal
• Special Fundamental Physics Prize
• Prince of Asturias Award for Concord
• Albert Einstein Award
• Wolf Prize in Physics
• Eddington Medal
• Dirac Medal of the Institute of Physics
• Hughes Medal, Albert Einstein Medal
• Adams Prize
• Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society

Publications:

• A Brief History of Time
• The Universe in a Nutshell
• The Grand Design
• A Briefer History of Time
• Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
• George's Secret Key to the Universe
• George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt
• The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
• My Brief History
• The Theory of Everything
• On the Shoulders of Giants
• The Nature of Space and Time
• God Created the Integers
• Hawking on the Big Bang and Black Holes
• Computer Resources for People With Disabilities
• Stephen Hawking Deluxe Set: The Universe in a Nutshell; The Illustrated A Brief History of Time
• The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
• Stephen Hawking: Life Works: On Time, the Nature of the Universe and the Theory of Everything
• The Illustrated a Brief History of Time
• The Cambridge Lectures : Life Works
• A Breif History of Time and the Universe in a Nutshell
• Is the End in Sight for Theoretical Physics?: An Inaugural Lecture
• George and the Big Bang