Stephen William Hawking Stephen Hawking is the most acclaimed theoretical physicist since Albert Einstein. He is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University in England. A position that was once held by Sir Isaac Newton. He has expanded our understanding of the beginnings of the universe. His groundbreaking research into cosmology and black holes reveals the startling possibilities of time running backwards, an eleven-dimensional universe and a no boundary model of creation. Hawking’s …showed first 75 words of 1406 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1406 total…limited to triggering a wheelchair button with one hand. Doctors predicted decades ago that he only had a few years to live. As a result, he became more determined to get the most from life. He didn’t die. Instead, as his condition worsened, his reputation in scientific circles continued to grow, as if to show the mind’s repudiation of the body’s limitations. He has been labeled “the smartest person in the world.”