A 13-year-old girl with a higher IQ score than genius scientists Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking signed up as a member of ...

Stephen Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary ... His father was a physician and specialist in tropical diseases; his mother was active in the Liberal Party. He was an awkward schoolboy ...

Stephen Hawking was the most recognisable scientist ... His father was a research biologist and his mother a medical research secretary, so it was not surprising that he was interested in science.