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On March 14, 2018, the world mourned the loss of Cambridge professor Stephen W. Hawking, PhD. Perhaps the most remarkable part of his passing was the fact that he was 76 years old—he wasn’t ...
Hawking had a rare early-onset, slow-progressing form of motor neurone disease (MND; also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig's disease), a fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects the motor neurones in the brain and spinal cord, which gradually paralysed him over decades.
Hawking discusses black hole thermodynamics, special relativity, general relativity, and quantum mechanics. Hawking also describes his life when he was young, and his later experience of motor neurone disease. The book also includes an interview with Professor Hawking. [2]
Public awareness of the disease gained prominence upon the diagnosis of baseball player Lou Gehrig, whose name would become an alternative title for the disease. Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, whose ALS was diagnosed in 1963, had the disease for 55 years, the longest recorded time one had the disease. He died at the age of 76 in 2018.
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Stephen Hawking has dedicated his life to advancing science while suffering from ALS. He recently revealed in a BBC interview that he would consider assisted suicide under certain circumstances.
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) – Physicist, paralyzed due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [15] Kent Hehr (born 1969) – Canadian politician, Member of Parliament from 2015–present. Paralyzed in shooting accident at age 22. [16]
Hawking (also known as Hawking: Brief History of Mine) is a 2013 British biographical documentary film about Stephen Hawking directed by Stephen Finnigan and features Hawking himself, depicting his love life, his struggle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and his later recognition as a world-famous scientist.