Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSAis an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge. His scientific works include a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. Hawking was the first to set forth a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth8 January 1942
CityOxford, England
Stephen Hawking quotes about
Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.
M-theory is the unified theory Einstein was hoping to find.
There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.
I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found.
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I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.