Dr. Stephen Hawking

A General Timeline of Dr. Hawking's Life:

• 1942 - Born on January 8th in Oxford, England.
• 1952 - Begins attending highschool at St. Albans in North London, until 1958.
• 1959 - Attends Oxford University, where he earns his bachelors in physics by 1962.
• 1963 - Diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, the same disease as famous baseball player Lou Gehrig.
• 1965 - Marries Jane Hawking on January 1st.
• 1966 - Completed doctorate thesis, "Properties of the Expanding Universe".
• 1974 - One of the youngest people to receive the honor of beinmg selected a fellow of the Royal Society.
• 1979 - Becomes the 17th Lucasian professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University.
• 1988 - Published a book on cosmology for the general public that becomes an instant best-seller. "A Brief History of Time".
• 1989 - Queen Elizabethh II made him a Companion of Honor.

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.”

-- Stephen Hawking