The name of Stephen Hawking is known today almostEveryone, regardless of how close they are to mathematics or physics. After all, apart from a significant contribution to the development of modern physics and cosmology, the scientist is famous for popularizing science, explaining in his books the complex concepts of the device of the universe in plain language.
Stephen Hawking. Biography
The future astrophysicist was born in January 1942. Hawking Stephen William was the first child in the family of the researcher Frank Hooking Medical Center and his wife -
Isabel Hawking. Later, two more girls appeared in the family. After graduation, the eldest son entered Oxford University in 1959. After graduating in 1962, Stephen Hawking continues his education and scientific work in the field of cosmology already in Cambridge. Today, everyone knows the image of an almost completely paralyzed scientist, chained to a wheelchair and able to communicate exclusively with the device synthesizing the voice. This problem manifested itself at a young age. In the third year of university, when he was 21, the young man noticed that he has problems with spatial coordination. Survey of doctors gave disappointing results: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and only two more years of life. However, the young man not only survived, but also retained an interest in the world around him, which gave him the strength to engage in scientific activities.
Unfortunately, completely overcome the disease is notIt was possible, and to thirty years Stephen Hawking was chained to a wheelchair. Moreover, the disease inexorably progresses to this day, the nerve behind the nerve, the muscle behind the muscle immobilizing the scientist. At the same time, this did not prevent him from leading an active social and personal life. In 1965, he married his university friend Jane Wilde, who later gave him three children. In 1979, Stephen Hawking became head of the Department of Theoretical Physics and Applied Mathematics at Cambridge University. It was once headed by Issak Newton. In 1991, the scientist is going through a divorce with Jane. And four years later he married Alvin Mason, with whom he lived until 2006.
Scientific contribution
Such mass fame Stephen Hawking has achieved, thanks not so much to its scientific developments, but rather to the popularization of modern science among
the public. World popularity was brought to him by the World History of Time, published in 1988. This book is original in that it narrates about complex
theories of the device of our universe popularordinary language, without the use of complex mathematical formulas. As for the scientific field itself, the main research in physics falls on quantum gravity and astrophysics. So, Stephen Hawking is an advanced researcher of mysterious black holes of space. He also made a significant contribution to the development of the Big Bang Theory, according to which our universe appeared without cause, suddenly and nowhere. The initial state of the world is described by the concept of singularity, where all modern space was once concentrated in one tiny point with infinite density and temperature. The Large Hadron Collider, which does not descend today from the lips of the media, is also partly the product of Hawking's activities. It was created to study the smallest particles (bosons, quarks), search for new elements and, possibly, new fundamental laws of physics at the micro level.</ p>
