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Stephen William Hawking CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (/ËstiËvÉn ËhÉËkÉªÅ/; born 8 January 1942) is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.awking was the first to set forth a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. He is a vigorous supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Stephen Hawking was born on 8th January 1942. Stephen Hawking is an English theoretical physicist. Stephen Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.hough Hawking's parents had their home in North London, they relocated to Oxford while Isobel was pregnant with young Stephen, desiring a safer location for the birth of their first child (London was under attack at the time by the German air force).