Stephen Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford, United Kingdom. His father was a biologist and professor at the University of Oxford. Since childhood, he was interested in the mysteries of the universe, since his life passed around science thanks to his father.
He went to college and majored in natural sciences at Oxford, but would soon major in physics. He entered Cambridge to do a PhD in cosmology, venerated a unique unifying equation that explains everything in the universe.
In 1963, at just 21 years old, he began to develop symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and his life expectancy was two years. At that time he met the love of his life Jane Wilde whom in 1965 he married, and they had three children.
We are rational beings free to observe the universe as we want and to draw logical conclusions from what we observe.
In 1966, he obtained his doctorate in theoretical physics and focused on the origin of the universe and the investigation of black holes, later he was detected of pneumonia and fell into a coma. He had to undergo a tracheotomy, of which he did not speak again. Over time, technology helped him speak. In 1974, he was awarded a position in the royal society and shortly thereafter he was awarded the Cambridge chair of mathematics.
One of his objectives was always to explain the origin of the universe, that is why he wrote a book about time and named it "Brief history of time" with metaphors that reach all audiences. This book sold more than 10 million copies and became known around the world.
In 1989, he received the Prince of Asturias Award and in 2009 the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He was one of the brightest minds, he was not only an incredible scientist, but also an example of self-improvement. Stephen Hawking passed away on March 14, 2018, at the age of 76, in Cambridge, UK.