From Lou Gehrig in 1939 to Eric Dane in 2025, celebrities have publicly dealt with what is now known as ALS for decades.

Stephen Hawking once warned against the imminent threat ... The theoretical physicist who suffered from the motor neuron disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) started using a new system ...

Eric Dane, Aaron Lazar, Stephen Hawking and Roberta Flack were all diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disease, which is ...

Beloved scientist Stephen Hawking, who overcame a debilitating disease to continue probing the mysteries of the universe, died Wednesday at the age of 76. Hawking authored numerous books ...

SEE ALSO: Stephen Hawking died on Einstein's birthday because everything in the cosmos is connected And Hawking, who was diagnosed with a nervous system disease known as amyotrophic lateral ...

Since Gehrig’s death in 1941, dozens of additional public figures battled the disease. American physicist Stephen ... Hawking had a slow-progressing form of ALS, allowing him to survive decades ...

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking took gravity ... cement his legacy for generations to come. Hawking began his research career in the 1960s, well before his diagnosis with ALS (amyotrophic lateral ...

Stephen Hawking submitted his final scientific paper just two weeks before he died, and it lays the theoretical groundwork for discovering a parallel universe. Hawking, who passed away on ...