Stephen Hawking
1942 – 2018 United Kingdom
cosmologisttheoretical physicistwriter
Who was Stephen Hawking?
British theoretical physicist who made groundbreaking contributions to cosmology and quantum gravity, particularly his work on black holes. Despite having ALS, he wrote the bestselling book A Brief History of Time and became an iconic science communicator.
Biographical data adapted from Wikipedia’s article on Stephen Hawking (CC BY-SA 4.0).