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Stephen Hawking

Published on Nov 23, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

STEPHEN HAWKING

STEPHEN HAWKING WAS BORN JAN.- 8 -1942 IN OXFORD ENGLAND.

EARLY YEARS

  • He showed a passion for Science at an early age.
  • His father was a biologist and his mother a political activist.
  • The smartest man in the world today did very poorly in school.
  • When he was a teenager he built his very own computer!
  • He was interested in Cosmology, which is in Physics.

ACHIEVEMENTS!

  • He discovered that matter can escape a collapsing star in a radiation form.
  • A collapsing star is the event of a star tranforming into a black hole.
  • He claimed that humans can time travel and colonize other planets.
  • He was accepted into the Royal society.
  • He used Math and Science to porve black holes, and Einstiens Theory of Relativity.

AWARDS

  • In 1988 he won the Wolf Prize in Physics.
  • In 1979 he won the Albert Einstien medal.
  • He won the Eddington medal in 1975, which was his first achievment.
  • In 2006 he was awarded the Copley medal from the Royal Society.
  • 2009 he won the Presidentail medal of Freedom, which is the highest honor.
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QUOTES

  • " Life on earth is an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by disaster."
  • " The greatest enemy of knowlege is not ignorance, it is the illusion-
  • of knowlege."
  • " It is a waste of time to be angry about my disbility. One has to get on with-
  • life and i haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are-
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QUOTES PART II

  • always angry and complaining."
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FUN FACTS

  • Stphen Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death (Scientist)
  • He was accepted into the Royal Society.
  • He says that Genral Relativity has to do with the birth of the universe and black-
  • holes the end.
  • He went to Oxford University at 17 and got his Ph.D at Trinity Hall in Cosmology.

SOURCES

  • (2015). Stephen hawking biography. www.biography.com/people/
  • This about Stephen Hawking and his life and accomplihs he has made too.
  • Charlie. (N.d.). Accomplishements- stephen hawking. Sites.google.com/a/
  • jeffcoschools.us
  • This is a basic summary of Stephen Hawking's accomplishments and how he got it.

SOURCES PART II

  • Nola Taylor R. (2015). Stephen hawking bigraphy. t.space.com/all/
  • 15923-stephen-hawking#1
  • This is a basic summary of Stephen Hawking and his accomplihments
  • and how got to it.

SOURCES PART III