Hawking is a graduate of Oxford and Cambridge universities, where he holds a doctorate.
霍金毕业于牛津大学和剑桥大学，并获剑桥大学博士学位。
In 1959, at the age of 17, hawking went to university college, Oxford, to study natural sciences, and spent little time getting a first class honours degree before moving to Cambridge university to study cosmology.
1959年17岁的霍金入读牛津大学的大学学院攻读自然科学，用了很少时间而得到一等荣誉学位，随后转读剑桥大学研究宇宙学。
In 1963, at the age of 21, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or motor neurone disease. At the time, he was diagnosed with a terminal illness and had only two years to live, but he survived.
1963年，21岁的他不幸被诊断患有肌肉萎缩性侧索硬化症即运动神经细胞病。当时，医生曾诊断身患绝症的他只能活两年，可他一直坚强地活了下来。
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史蒂芬·霍金1942年1月8日出生于英国牛津，他的父亲弗兰克与母亲伊莎贝尔都就读于牛津大学，弗兰克主修医学，伊莎贝尔学习哲学、政治学和经济学。
第二次世界大战爆发后，弗兰克原本想要从军报国，上级认为他如果从事研究工作可以对国家给出更有价值的贡献，他于是在一所医学研究院任职研究员，伊莎贝尔也在这所研究院找到一份秘书工作。他们在这里相遇并且坠入爱河、共结连理。
婚后，他们住在伦敦附近郊区海格特。那时正值纳粹德军轰炸英格兰，伦敦遭受几乎夜夜不停的空袭。夫妻二人被迫决定，伊莎贝尔应该搬迁到较为安全的牛津把孩子生下来。等到史蒂芬诞生后，伊莎贝尔才又回到海格特。
在史蒂芬1岁与5岁时，他们还生了两个女儿菲莉帕与玛莉，史蒂芬14岁时，他们又收养了一个儿子爱德华。
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斯蒂芬·威廉姆·霍金（Stephen William Hawking）剑桥大学应用数学及理论物理学系教授，当代最重要的广义相对论和宇宙论家，是本世纪享有国际盛誉的伟人之一，被称为在世的最伟大的科学家。生于1942年1月8日的霍金刚好出生于伽利略逝世300周年纪念日之时。70年代他与彭罗斯一道证明了著名的奇性定理，为此他们共同获得了1988年的沃尔夫物理奖。他因此被誉为继爱因斯坦之后世界上最著名的科学思想家和最杰出的理论物理学家。
他还证明了黑洞的面积定理。霍金的生平是非常富有传奇性的，在科学成就上，他是有史以来最杰出的科学家之一。他担任的职务是剑桥大学有史以来最为崇高的教授职务，那是牛顿和狄拉克担任过的卢卡逊数学教授。他拥有几个荣誉学位，是英国皇家学会会员。
他因患“渐冻症”（肌萎缩性侧索硬化症），禁锢在一张轮椅上达40年之久，他却身残志不残，使之化为优势，克服了残废之患而成为国际物理界的超新星。他不能写，甚至口齿不清，但他超越了相对论、量子力学、大爆炸等理论而迈入创造宇宙的“几何之舞”。尽管他那么无助地坐在轮椅上，他的思想却出色地遨游到广袤的时空，解开了宇宙之谜。
霍金的魅力不仅在于他是一个充满传奇色彩的物理天才，也因为他是一个令人折服的生活强者。他不断求索的科学精神和勇敢顽强的人格力量深深地吸引了每一个知道他的人。
斯蒂芬•威廉姆•霍金于1942年1月8日（伽利略逝世300年忌日）生于英格兰牛津。他父母原住在伦敦北部，但在第二次世界大战期间，牛津被认为是一个生 育孩子较安全的地方。他八岁时，他家搬到圣•爱尔本斯，伦敦北面20英里的一 个小镇。十一岁时，史蒂芬到圣•爱尔本斯学校上学，然后上牛津的"大学学院 "（University College)--他父亲上过的学院。虽然他父亲想让他学医，但他却想学数学。而大学学院没开数学专业，所以他选择了学物理。在大学学院学了 三年，没花多大工夫，他被授予自然科学甲等荣誉学位。 然后史蒂芬到康桥做宇宙学研究，那个时候在牛津还没有一个人从事宇宙学研 究。他的导师是丹尼斯•西马，虽然他本希望弗雷德•霍依尔做他的导师的， 费雷德•霍依尔当时正在康桥工作。获得博士学位后，他在刚维尔•塞斯学院先是做助研，后来便做职业研究工作。1973年斯蒂芬离开天文学院来到应用数学和理 论物理系。自1979年，斯蒂芬做"路克斯"数学教授。这个职位是1663年根据莱 佛仁德•亨利•路克斯的遗嘱以路克斯留下的钱作?基金创建的。路克斯曾经是 该大学的英国议员。第一个获得"路克斯"数学教授职位的是依扎克•巴洛， 然后是依扎克•牛顿。 斯蒂芬•霍金一直从事宇宙的基本定律的研究工作。与罗杰•彭罗斯一起，他发现爱因斯坦的广义相对论暗示了空间和时间是从大爆炸奇点处开始而至黑洞结 束。这些结果显示把广义相对论与量子理论结合起来是必要的，这是二十世纪前半世纪的另一个科学发展。他发现的这样一个结合的一个后果是黑洞不应该是完全黑的，黑洞向外辐射，最终蒸发，消失。另一个推测是宇宙在想象的时间里没 有边缘，它是无限的。这将意味着宇宙形成的方式完全是由科学定律决定的。 他发表的著作包括：与G.F.R.艾利斯合着的《时空的大规模结构》，与W.以色 列合着的《广义相对论：爱因斯坦世纪眺望》和与W.以色列合着的《重力300年》 。史蒂芬•霍金有两部畅销书：他的最畅销书--《时间简史》，和后来的《黑 洞、婴儿宇宙及其它》。 霍金教授有十二个荣誉学位。1982年他被授予CBE，1989年获荣誉伙伴称号。 他获得过许多奖励，奖金，奖牌。他是英国皇家学会会员和美国国家科学学会会员。 斯蒂芬•霍金继续把他的家庭生活（他有三个子女和一个孙子女），他的理论物理研究与广泛的旅行和演讲结合起来。
About Stephen - A Brief History of Mine
Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 (300 years after the death of Galileo) in Oxford, England. His parents' house was in north London, but during the second world war Oxford was considered a safer place to have babies. When he was eight, his family moved to St Albans, a town about 20 miles north of London. At eleven Stephen went to St Albans School, and then on to University College, Oxford, his father's old college. Stephen wanted to do Mathematics, although his father would have preferred medicine. Mathematics was not available at University College, so he did Physics instead. After three years and not very much work he was awarded a first class honours degree in Natural Science.
Stephen then went on to Cambridge to do research in Cosmology, there being no-one working in that area in Oxford at the time. His supervisor was Denis Sciama, although he had hoped to get Fred Hoyle who was working in Cambridge. After gaining his Ph.D. he became first a Research Fellow, and later on a Professorial Fellow at Gonville and Caius College. After leaving the Institute of Astronomy in 1973 Stephen came to the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, and since 1979 has held the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. The chair was founded in 1663 with money left in the will of the Reverend Henry Lucas, who had been the Member of Parliament for the University. It was first held by Isaac Barrow, and then in 1663 by Isaac Newton.
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.
His many publications include The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime with G F R Ellis, General Relativity: An Einstein Centenary Survey, with W Israel, and 300 Years of Gravity, with W Israel. Stephen Hawking has two popular books published; his best seller A Brief History of Time, and his later book, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays.
Professor Hawking has twelve honorary degrees, was awarded the CBE in 1982, and was made a Companion of Honour in 1989. He is the recipient of many awards, medals and prizes and is a Fellow of The Royal Society and a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences.
Stephen Hawking continues to combine family life (he has three children and one grandchild), and his research into theoretical physics together with an extensive programme of travel and public lectures.本回答被提问者采纳
他还证明了黑洞的面积定理。霍金的生平是非常富有传奇性的，在科学成就上，他是有史以来最杰出的科学家之一。他担任的职务是剑桥大学有史以来最为崇高的教授职务，那是牛顿和狄拉克担任过的卢卡逊数学教授。他拥有几个荣誉学位，是英国皇家学会会员。
他因患“渐冻症”（肌萎缩性侧索硬化症），禁锢在一张轮椅上达40年之久，他却身残志不残，使之化为优势，克服了残废之患而成为国际物理界的超新星。他不能写，甚至口齿不清，但他超越了相对论、量子力学、大爆炸等理论而迈入创造宇宙的“几何之舞”。尽管他那么无助地坐在轮椅上，他的思想却出色地遨游到广袤的时空，解开了宇宙之谜。
霍金的魅力不仅在于他是一个充满传奇色彩的物理天才，也因为他是一个令人折服的生活强者。他不断求索的科学精神和勇敢顽强的人格力量深深地吸引了每一个知道他的人。
斯蒂芬•威廉姆•霍金于1942年1月8日（伽利略逝世300年忌日）生于英格兰牛津。他父母原住在伦敦北部，但在第二次世界大战期间，牛津被认为是一个生 育孩子较安全的地方。他八岁时，他家搬到圣•爱尔本斯，伦敦北面20英里的一 个小镇。十一岁时，史蒂芬到圣•爱尔本斯学校上学，然后上牛津的"大学学院 "（University College)--他父亲上过的学院。虽然他父亲想让他学医，但他却想学数学。而大学学院没开数学专业，所以他选择了学物理。在大学学院学了 三年，没花多大工夫，他被授予自然科学甲等荣誉学位。 然后史蒂芬到康桥做宇宙学研究，那个时候在牛津还没有一个人从事宇宙学研 究。他的导师是丹尼斯•西马，虽然他本希望弗雷德•霍依尔做他的导师的， 费雷德•霍依尔当时正在康桥工作。获得博士学位后，他在刚维尔•塞斯学院先是做助研，后来便做职业研究工作。1973年斯蒂芬离开天文学院来到应用数学和理 论物理系。自1979年，斯蒂芬做"路克斯"数学教授。这个职位是1663年根据莱 佛仁德•亨利•路克斯的遗嘱以路克斯留下的钱作?基金创建的。路克斯曾经是 该大学的英国议员。第一个获得"路克斯"数学教授职位的是依扎克•巴洛， 然后是依扎克•牛顿。 斯蒂芬•霍金一直从事宇宙的基本定律的研究工作。与罗杰•彭罗斯一起，他发现爱因斯坦的广义相对论暗示了空间和时间是从大爆炸奇点处开始而至黑洞结 束。这些结果显示把广义相对论与量子理论结合起来是必要的，这是二十世纪前半世纪的另一个科学发展。他发现的这样一个结合的一个后果是黑洞不应该是完全黑的，黑洞向外辐射，最终蒸发，消失。另一个推测是宇宙在想象的时间里没 有边缘，它是无限的。这将意味着宇宙形成的方式完全是由科学定律决定的。 他发表的著作包括：与G.F.R.艾利斯合着的《时空的大规模结构》，与W.以色 列合着的《广义相对论：爱因斯坦世纪眺望》和与W.以色列合着的《重力300年》 。史蒂芬•霍金有两部畅销书：他的最畅销书--《时间简史》，和后来的《黑 洞、婴儿宇宙及其它》。 霍金教授有十二个荣誉学位。1982年他被授予CBE，1989年获荣誉伙伴称号。 他获得过许多奖励，奖金，奖牌。他是英国皇家学会会员和美国国家科学学会会员。 斯蒂芬•霍金继续把他的家庭生活（他有三个子女和一个孙子女），他的理论物理研究与广泛的旅行和演讲结合起来。
About Stephen - A Brief History of Mine
Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 (300 years after the death of Galileo) in Oxford, England. His parents' house was in north London, but during the second world war Oxford was considered a safer place to have babies. When he was eight, his family moved to St Albans, a town about 20 miles north of London. At eleven Stephen went to St Albans School, and then on to University College, Oxford, his father's old college. Stephen wanted to do Mathematics, although his father would have preferred medicine. Mathematics was not available at University College, so he did Physics instead. After three years and not very much work he was awarded a first class honours degree in Natural Science.
Stephen then went on to Cambridge to do research in Cosmology, there being no-one working in that area in Oxford at the time. His supervisor was Denis Sciama, although he had hoped to get Fred Hoyle who was working in Cambridge. After gaining his Ph.D. he became first a Research Fellow, and later on a Professorial Fellow at Gonville and Caius College. After leaving the Institute of Astronomy in 1973 Stephen came to the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, and since 1979 has held the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. The chair was founded in 1663 with money left in the will of the Reverend Henry Lucas, who had been the Member of Parliament for the University. It was first held by Isaac Barrow, and then in 1663 by Isaac Newton.
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.
His many publications include The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime with G F R Ellis, General Relativity: An Einstein Centenary Survey, with W Israel, and 300 Years of Gravity, with W Israel. Stephen Hawking has two popular books published; his best seller A Brief History of Time, and his later book, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays.
Professor Hawking has twelve honorary degrees, was awarded the CBE in 1982, and was made a Companion of Honour in 1989. He is the recipient of many awards, medals and prizes and is a Fellow of The Royal Society and a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences.
Stephen Hawking continues to combine family life (he has three children and one grandchild), and his research into theoretical physics together with an extensive programme of travel and public lectures.本回答被提问者采纳
第2个回答 2008-05-16
斯蒂芬·威廉姆·霍金（Stephen William Hawking）剑桥大学应用数学及理论物理学系教授，当代最重要的广义相对论和宇宙论家，是本世纪享有国际盛誉的伟人之一，被称为在世的最伟大的科学家。生于1942年1月8日的霍金刚好出生于伽利略逝世300周年纪念日之时。70年代他与彭罗斯一道证明了著名的奇性定理，为此他们共同获得了1988年的沃尔夫物理奖。他因此被誉为继爱因斯坦之后世界上最著名的科学思想家和最杰出的理论物理学家。
他还证明了黑洞的面积定理。霍金的生平是非常富有传奇性的，在科学成就上，他是有史以来最杰出的科学家之一。他担任的职务是剑桥大学有史以来最为崇高的教授职务，那是牛顿和狄拉克担任过的卢卡逊数学教授。他拥有几个荣誉学位，是英国皇家学会会员。
他因患“渐冻症”（肌萎缩性侧索硬化症），禁锢在一张轮椅上达40年之久，他却身残志不残，使之化为优势，克服了残废之患而成为国际物理界的超新星。他不能写，甚至口齿不清，但他超越了相对论、量子力学、大爆炸等理论而迈入创造宇宙的“几何之舞”。尽管他那么无助地坐在轮椅上，他的思想却出色地遨游到广袤的时空，解开了宇宙之谜。
霍金的魅力不仅在于他是一个充满传奇色彩的物理天才，也因为他是一个令人折服的生活强者。他不断求索的科学精神和勇敢顽强的人格力量深深地吸引了每一个知道他的人。
斯蒂芬•威廉姆•霍金于1942年1月8日（伽利略逝世300年忌日）生于英格兰牛津。他父母原住在伦敦北部，但在第二次世界大战期间，牛津被认为是一个生 育孩子较安全的地方。他八岁时，他家搬到圣•爱尔本斯，伦敦北面20英里的一 个小镇。十一岁时，史蒂芬到圣•爱尔本斯学校上学，然后上牛津的"大学学院 "（University College)--他父亲上过的学院。虽然他父亲想让他学医，但他却想学数学。而大学学院没开数学专业，所以他选择了学物理。在大学学院学了 三年，没花多大工夫，他被授予自然科学甲等荣誉学位。 然后史蒂芬到康桥做宇宙学研究，那个时候在牛津还没有一个人从事宇宙学研 究。他的导师是丹尼斯•西马，虽然他本希望弗雷德•霍依尔做他的导师的， 费雷德•霍依尔当时正在康桥工作。获得博士学位后，他在刚维尔•塞斯学院先是做助研，后来便做职业研究工作。1973年斯蒂芬离开天文学院来到应用数学和理 论物理系。自1979年，斯蒂芬做"路克斯"数学教授。这个职位是1663年根据莱 佛仁德•亨利•路克斯的遗嘱以路克斯留下的钱作?基金创建的。路克斯曾经是 该大学的英国议员。第一个获得"路克斯"数学教授职位的是依扎克•巴洛， 然后是依扎克•牛顿。 斯蒂芬•霍金一直从事宇宙的基本定律的研究工作。与罗杰•彭罗斯一起，他发现爱因斯坦的广义相对论暗示了空间和时间是从大爆炸奇点处开始而至黑洞结 束。这些结果显示把广义相对论与量子理论结合起来是必要的，这是二十世纪前半世纪的另一个科学发展。他发现的这样一个结合的一个后果是黑洞不应该是完全黑的，黑洞向外辐射，最终蒸发，消失。另一个推测是宇宙在想象的时间里没 有边缘，它是无限的。这将意味着宇宙形成的方式完全是由科学定律决定的。 他发表的著作包括：与G.F.R.艾利斯合着的《时空的大规模结构》，与W.以色 列合着的《广义相对论：爱因斯坦世纪眺望》和与W.以色列合着的《重力300年》 。史蒂芬•霍金有两部畅销书：他的最畅销书--《时间简史》，和后来的《黑 洞、婴儿宇宙及其它》。 霍金教授有十二个荣誉学位。1982年他被授予CBE，1989年获荣誉伙伴称号。 他获得过许多奖励，奖金，奖牌。他是英国皇家学会会员和美国国家科学学会会员。 斯蒂芬•霍金继续把他的家庭生活（他有三个子女和一个孙子女），他的理论物理研究与广泛的旅行和演讲结合起来。
他还证明了黑洞的面积定理。霍金的生平是非常富有传奇性的，在科学成就上，他是有史以来最杰出的科学家之一。他担任的职务是剑桥大学有史以来最为崇高的教授职务，那是牛顿和狄拉克担任过的卢卡逊数学教授。他拥有几个荣誉学位，是英国皇家学会会员。
他因患“渐冻症”（肌萎缩性侧索硬化症），禁锢在一张轮椅上达40年之久，他却身残志不残，使之化为优势，克服了残废之患而成为国际物理界的超新星。他不能写，甚至口齿不清，但他超越了相对论、量子力学、大爆炸等理论而迈入创造宇宙的“几何之舞”。尽管他那么无助地坐在轮椅上，他的思想却出色地遨游到广袤的时空，解开了宇宙之谜。
霍金的魅力不仅在于他是一个充满传奇色彩的物理天才，也因为他是一个令人折服的生活强者。他不断求索的科学精神和勇敢顽强的人格力量深深地吸引了每一个知道他的人。
斯蒂芬•威廉姆•霍金于1942年1月8日（伽利略逝世300年忌日）生于英格兰牛津。他父母原住在伦敦北部，但在第二次世界大战期间，牛津被认为是一个生 育孩子较安全的地方。他八岁时，他家搬到圣•爱尔本斯，伦敦北面20英里的一 个小镇。十一岁时，史蒂芬到圣•爱尔本斯学校上学，然后上牛津的"大学学院 "（University College)--他父亲上过的学院。虽然他父亲想让他学医，但他却想学数学。而大学学院没开数学专业，所以他选择了学物理。在大学学院学了 三年，没花多大工夫，他被授予自然科学甲等荣誉学位。 然后史蒂芬到康桥做宇宙学研究，那个时候在牛津还没有一个人从事宇宙学研 究。他的导师是丹尼斯•西马，虽然他本希望弗雷德•霍依尔做他的导师的， 费雷德•霍依尔当时正在康桥工作。获得博士学位后，他在刚维尔•塞斯学院先是做助研，后来便做职业研究工作。1973年斯蒂芬离开天文学院来到应用数学和理 论物理系。自1979年，斯蒂芬做"路克斯"数学教授。这个职位是1663年根据莱 佛仁德•亨利•路克斯的遗嘱以路克斯留下的钱作?基金创建的。路克斯曾经是 该大学的英国议员。第一个获得"路克斯"数学教授职位的是依扎克•巴洛， 然后是依扎克•牛顿。 斯蒂芬•霍金一直从事宇宙的基本定律的研究工作。与罗杰•彭罗斯一起，他发现爱因斯坦的广义相对论暗示了空间和时间是从大爆炸奇点处开始而至黑洞结 束。这些结果显示把广义相对论与量子理论结合起来是必要的，这是二十世纪前半世纪的另一个科学发展。他发现的这样一个结合的一个后果是黑洞不应该是完全黑的，黑洞向外辐射，最终蒸发，消失。另一个推测是宇宙在想象的时间里没 有边缘，它是无限的。这将意味着宇宙形成的方式完全是由科学定律决定的。 他发表的著作包括：与G.F.R.艾利斯合着的《时空的大规模结构》，与W.以色 列合着的《广义相对论：爱因斯坦世纪眺望》和与W.以色列合着的《重力300年》 。史蒂芬•霍金有两部畅销书：他的最畅销书--《时间简史》，和后来的《黑 洞、婴儿宇宙及其它》。 霍金教授有十二个荣誉学位。1982年他被授予CBE，1989年获荣誉伙伴称号。 他获得过许多奖励，奖金，奖牌。他是英国皇家学会会员和美国国家科学学会会员。 斯蒂芬•霍金继续把他的家庭生活（他有三个子女和一个孙子女），他的理论物理研究与广泛的旅行和演讲结合起来。
第3个回答 2012-11-27
史蒂芬·威廉·霍金
英国著名物理学家，被誉为继爱因斯坦之后最杰出的理论物理学家[2]。肌肉萎缩性侧索硬化症患者，全身瘫痪，不能发音。霍金的主要研究领域是宇宙论和黑洞，证明了广义相对论的奇性定理和黑洞面积定理，提出了黑洞蒸发现象和无边界的霍金宇宙模型[2]，在统一20世纪物理学的两大基础理论——爱因斯坦创立的相对论和普朗克创立的量子力学方面走出了重要一步。
Stephen William Hocking
The famous British physicist, known as after Einstein, most outstanding theoretical physicist [2]. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients, paralyzed, unable to pronounce. Hocking's main research field is the cosmological and black hole, it is shown that the generalized relativity singularity theorem and the black hole area theorem, presents black hole evaporation phenomenon and no boundary universe model Hocking [2], in twentieth Century the two basic theories of physics -- Einstein founded the theory of relativity and Planck created out of a quantum mechanics step.赞同
英国著名物理学家，被誉为继爱因斯坦之后最杰出的理论物理学家[2]。肌肉萎缩性侧索硬化症患者，全身瘫痪，不能发音。霍金的主要研究领域是宇宙论和黑洞，证明了广义相对论的奇性定理和黑洞面积定理，提出了黑洞蒸发现象和无边界的霍金宇宙模型[2]，在统一20世纪物理学的两大基础理论——爱因斯坦创立的相对论和普朗克创立的量子力学方面走出了重要一步。
Stephen William Hocking
The famous British physicist, known as after Einstein, most outstanding theoretical physicist [2]. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients, paralyzed, unable to pronounce. Hocking's main research field is the cosmological and black hole, it is shown that the generalized relativity singularity theorem and the black hole area theorem, presents black hole evaporation phenomenon and no boundary universe model Hocking [2], in twentieth Century the two basic theories of physics -- Einstein founded the theory of relativity and Planck created out of a quantum mechanics step.赞同
第4个回答 2008-05-16
Hawking grew up outside London in an intellectual family. His father was a physician and specialist in tropical diseases; his mother was active in the Liberal Party. He was an awkward schoolboy, but knew from early on that he wanted to study science. He became increasingly skilled in mathematics and in 1958 he and some friends built a primitive computer that actually worked. In 1959 he won a scholarship to Oxford University, where his intellectual capabilities became more noticeable. In 1962 he got his degree with honors and went to Cambridge University to pursue a PhD in cosmology. There he became intrigued with black holes (first proposed by J. Robert Oppenheimer) and "space-time singularities," or events in which the laws of physics seem to break down. After receiving his PhD, he stayed at Cambridge, becoming known even in his 20s for his pioneering ideas and use of Einstein's formulas, as well as his questioning of older, established physicists.
In 1968 he joined the staff of the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge and began to apply the laws of thermodynamics to black holes by means of very complicated mathematics. He published the very technical book, Large Scale Structure of Space-Time but soon afterwards made a startling discovery. It had always been thought that nothing could escape a black hole; Hawking suggested that under certain conditions, a black hole could emit subatomic particles. That is now know as Hawking Radiation. He continued working on the theory of the origin of the universe, and in doing so found ways to link relativity (gravity) with quantum mechanics (the inner workings of atoms). This contributed enormously to what physicists call Grand Unified Theory, a way of explaining, in one equation, all physical matter in the universe.
At the remarkably young age of 32, he was named a fellow of the Royal Society. He received the Albert Einstein Award, the most prestigious in theoretical physics. And in 1979, he was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, the same post held by Sir Isaac Newton 300 years earlier. There he began to question the big bang theory, which by then most had accepted. Perhaps, he suggested, there was never a start and would be no end, but just change -- a constant transition of one "universe" giving way to another through glitches in space-time. All the while, he was digging into exploding black holes, string theory, and the birth of black holes in our own galaxy.
In 1988 Hawking wrote A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes , explaining the evolution of his thinking about the cosmos for a general audience. It became a best-seller of long standing and established his reputation as an accessible genius. He wrote other popular articles and appeared in movies and television. He remains extremely busy, his work hardly slowed by Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a disease that affects muscle control) for which he uses a wheelchair and speaks through a computer and voice synthesizer.
In 1968 he joined the staff of the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge and began to apply the laws of thermodynamics to black holes by means of very complicated mathematics. He published the very technical book, Large Scale Structure of Space-Time but soon afterwards made a startling discovery. It had always been thought that nothing could escape a black hole; Hawking suggested that under certain conditions, a black hole could emit subatomic particles. That is now know as Hawking Radiation. He continued working on the theory of the origin of the universe, and in doing so found ways to link relativity (gravity) with quantum mechanics (the inner workings of atoms). This contributed enormously to what physicists call Grand Unified Theory, a way of explaining, in one equation, all physical matter in the universe.
At the remarkably young age of 32, he was named a fellow of the Royal Society. He received the Albert Einstein Award, the most prestigious in theoretical physics. And in 1979, he was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, the same post held by Sir Isaac Newton 300 years earlier. There he began to question the big bang theory, which by then most had accepted. Perhaps, he suggested, there was never a start and would be no end, but just change -- a constant transition of one "universe" giving way to another through glitches in space-time. All the while, he was digging into exploding black holes, string theory, and the birth of black holes in our own galaxy.
In 1988 Hawking wrote A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes , explaining the evolution of his thinking about the cosmos for a general audience. It became a best-seller of long standing and established his reputation as an accessible genius. He wrote other popular articles and appeared in movies and television. He remains extremely busy, his work hardly slowed by Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a disease that affects muscle control) for which he uses a wheelchair and speaks through a computer and voice synthesizer.
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