1/18Professor Stephen Hawking in the University of Cambridge.Picture: Headpress
Remembering the life of Stephen Hawking
THE greatest mind of the generation — physicist Professor Stephen Hawking — has died at the age of 76 after a long struggle with motor neurone disease.
2/18Queen Elizabeth ll meets professor Stephen Hawking during a reception at Buckingham Palace to mark the importance of British Science on October 24, 2006 in London, England. Picture: Getty Images
3/18Stephen Hawking and first wife Jane. Picture: Supplied
4/18Stephen Hawking's Time travel party. Picture: Discovery Communications
5/18Dr Stephen Hawking Physics professor and author at Cambridge University. 1st September 1988. Picture: Getty Images
6/18Professor Stephen Hawking with wife Elaine Mason after marriage ceremony at Cambridge Register Office 15 Sept 1995. Picture: Supplied
7/18Stephen Hawking with his daughter Lucy. Picture: Angela Micu/ Supplied
8/18British mathematician, astrophysicist (cosmologist) Stephen W Hawking smiles during a news conference at the University of Potsdam, near Berlin, Germany, in this 21/07/1999. Picture: Supplied
9/18Professor Stephen Hawking sits in his office at University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 12/2011. Hawking is Director of Research for the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and founder of the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology. Picture: Supplied
10/18Professor Stephen and Jane Hawking on their wedding day in undated photo from her book “Music to Move the Stars”. Picture: Supplied
11/18Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking speaks at an international gathering of scientists on the origins of the universe at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People in China. Picture: AP
12/18Cosmologist Stephen Hawking (L) with actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Stephen in the TV documentary ‘Hawking’ which focuses in his early life as a PhD student at Cambridge in 1963. Picture: Supplied
13/18Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking floats on a zero-gravity jet, Thursday, April 26, 2007. The modified jet carrying Hawking, a handful of his physicians and nurses, and dozens of others first flew up to 24,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean off Florida. Picture: Supplied
14/18Physicist Stephen Hawking, 75, speaks to an audience by hologram (L) in Hong Kong, beamed live from his office in Cambridge, England. Picture: AFP
15/18Brief History by Stephen Hawking Picture: Supplied
16/18Campbridge University Professor Stephen Hawking, 19 December 1989. Picture: Supplied
17/18Simpsons depiction of Stephen Hawking. Picture: Supplied
18/18Actors Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones pose with Stephen Hawking as they arrive at the UK Premiere of the film “The Theory of Everything” which is based around Stephen Hawking’s life, at a cinema in central London December 9, 2014. Picture: Reuters
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