Stephen Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary ... arcane matters not just to other physicists but to the general public. Hawking grew up outside London in an intellectual family.

Hawking’s thesis demonstrated that if the universe obeyed general relativity and contained enough ... exploration that defined his life’s work. Stephen Hawking’s PhD thesis, Properties ...

With Stephen Hawking, he showed that if Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity is correct ... and the author of several books about the nature of space, time and reality.