What is stephen hawking known for?

Question

i have an essay of him due the next day

Answer 1

He wrote a brief history in time and he's known for being incredibly smart.  Stephen Hawking has worked on the basic laws which govern the universe. With Roger Penrose he showed that Einstein's General Theory of Relativity implied space and time would have a beginning in the Big Bang and an end in black holes. These results indicated it was necessary to unify General Relativity with Quantum Theory, the other great Scientific development of the first half of the 20th Century. One consequence of such a unification that he discovered was that black holes should not be completely black, but should emit radiation and eventually evaporate and disappear. Another conjecture is that the universe has no edge or boundary in imaginary time. This would imply that the way the universe began was completely determined by the laws of science.

Answer 2

He's the guy that wrote A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. He talks about alternate dimensions and stuff.

Answer 3

being on south park episodes.

Answer 4

Being an amazingly brilliant quadriplegic and for enduring  lots of criticism and fun-making by ignorant people.

Answer 5

Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes, and his popular works in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general. These include the runaway popular science bestseller A Brief History of Time, which stayed on the British Sunday Times bestseller list for a record-breaking 237 weeks.[1]

His key scientific works to date have included providing, with Roger Penrose, theorems regarding singularities in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes should emit radiation, which is today known as Hawking radiation, or sometimes as Bekenstein-Hawking radiation.[2] His scientific career spans more than 40 years and his books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity and world-renowned theoretical physicist. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[3] Hawking is disabled by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known in the United States as Lou Gehrig's Disease. The illness has progressed over the years and he is now almost completely paralysed.

Answer 6

You need to do your work.

Hawking is our Einstein substitute. He is so brilliant that when his disease began to paralyze him he kept his math in his memory; very few mathematicians could follow it.

Do your work and give him the homage he has earned.

Answer 7

He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes, and his popular works in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general. These include the runaway popular science bestseller 'A Brief History of Time,' which stayed on the British Sunday Times bestseller list for a record-breaking 237 weeks.

Answer 8

Probably the smartest person alive, when people think brilliant they think:

1) Einstein

2) Hawking

Answer 9

His latest theory leaves me questioning how smart he is.  He thinks there are an infinite number of parallel universes.  He was trying to explain why there is not loss of information when matter falls into a black hole.  According to him, in some parallel universe the information is persevered because in that universe there are no black holes.  If he weren't so obviously gifted in other theories, he would be dismissed as a nut. I still think he has left reality behind in favor of mathematical equations.

Answer 10

One of his best quotes...

"Humans are just an advanced breed of monkey, on a minor planet, of a very average star. But we can understand the universe. That makes us something very special."