Stephen Hawking

Today is my birthday. #happybirthdaytome🎈🎈

with all control of my body gone, I use a program through a cheek muscle attached to a sensor to choose my words.

At the age of 65, while visiting the Kennedy Space Center, I experienced an environment without gravity. #soawesome

In 1988, I was a recipient of the Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for publishing my short book.

At age 32, I was named a fellow of the Royal Society and later earned the prestigious Albert Einstein Award.

1974-I proposed that black holes emit subatomic particles until they release their energy and explode.#quantumtheory

In 1974, i showed that matter, in the form of radiation, can escape the gravitational force of a collapsed star.

My first book published was in 1973 called, The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time, with G.F.R. Ellis.

I was blessed with three wonderful children, Lucy, Robert, and Timothy.

My physical disability had put me in a wheelchair. In 1968. I was a part of the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge.

"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing."

#funfact: I was born 300 years after Galileo. #howcoolisthat!

NASA's Next Major Space Telescope Project Officially Starts in February dlvr.it/DCYXVk

At a party in 1963, before I was diagnosed with ALS, I met Jane Wilde. We were in love and got married in 1965.

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."

After graduating with honors in Science at Oxford, I went on to do a PhD at Cambridge in Cosmology.

As I was near the age of 21, I was diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Oxford University, where my parents studied. I did my undergraduate in physics there, so many memories...

"We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain".

Hello everyone. I was born in Oxford, England to parents who graduated from Oxford University. I have 3 siblings.