Stephen Hawking Passes Away at 76 years

Stephen Hawkings

The most shining star in the sky of science, whose insights shaped modern cosmology and sparked millions of global populace, has expired at 76 years of age.

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Sayings by Stephen Hawkings

"I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first
Stephen Hawking" Stephen Hawking

 "My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all" Stephen Hawking

"There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark" Stephen Hawking


Brief History of Stephen Hawkings

Hawking married his college friend, Jane Wilde, in 1965. She wrote a book Travelling to Infinity: My Life With Stephen in 2013.The couple had three children and three grand children.

In 1985, on tour to Cern, Hawking with an infection, was admitted to hospital. His condition was so bad that doctors told Jane that they would remove Hawking from life support. She refused and took Hawking to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, and they performed tracheotomy surgery.Though the operation saved his life, his voice was damaged. Their marriage broke down in 1991, Jane wrote of him being “a child possessed of a massive and fractious ego,” and how husband and wife became “master” and “slave”. Hawking’s declining health, his commands on Jane, and his denial to explain his illness were devastating forces the relationship could not last.

After Four years, Hawking married  Elaine Mason, the nurse appointed as his 24X7 caretaker. Even this marriage failed after 11 years due to series of alleged assaults on Hawking. Elaine's former husband, David Mason, designed the first wheelchair-mounted speech synthesizer that Hawking used.

Hawking was the towering figure in cosmology. Hawking won the Albert Einstein Award, the Wolf Prize, the Copley Medal, and the Fundamental Physics Prize. The Nobel prize, however, eluded him.

“I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark,” Hawking said.