Stephen Hawking ... including Newton. He had reached a pinnacle of intellectual achievement despite the facts motor neurone disease had ravaged his body, he could no longer walk or feed himself ...

Nevertheless, he carried on with his work. After a few years, he couldn't walk ... much as he could. He had three children, wrote 15 books and even flew like an astronaut! Stephen Hawking died ...

Credit: AFP/Getty Images When Stephen Hawking spoke, the world listened. The physicist, who died early Wednesday at the age of 76, could never be contained to just one subject. He talked about his ...

Stephen Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death. He has come to be thought of as the greatest mind in physics since Albert Einstein. With similar interests -- discovering the ...