Stephen Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA
Hawking at NASA's StarChild Learning Center, 1980s
Born	Stephen William Hawking 8 January 1942 Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Died	14 March 2018 (aged 76) Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Resting place	Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London
Nationality	British
Education	St Albans School, Hertfordshire
Alma mater	University of Oxford (BA) University of Cambridge (PhD)
Known for	Hawking radiation A Brief History of Time Penrose–Hawking theorems Bekenstein–Hawking formula Hawking energy Gibbons–Hawking ansatz Gibbons–Hawking effect Gibbons–Hawking space Gibbons–Hawking–York boundary term Thorne–Hawking–Preskill bet
Spouse(s)	Jane Wilde (m. 1965; div. 1995) Elaine Mason (m. 1995; div. 2007)
Children	3, including Lucy Hawking
Awards	Adams Prize (1966) Eddington Medal (1975) Maxwell Medal and Prize (1976) Heineman Prize (1976) Hughes Medal (1976) Albert Einstein Award (1978) Albert Einstein Medal (1979) RAS Gold Medal (1985) Dirac Medal (1987) Wolf Prize (1988) Prince of Asturias Award (1989) Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1992) Andrew Gemant Award (1998) Naylor Prize and Lectureship (1999) Lilienfeld Prize (1999) Albert Medal (1999) Copley Medal (2006) Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009) Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2012) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2015)
Scientific career
Fields	General relativity Quantum gravity
Institutions	Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge California Institute of Technology Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Thesis	Properties of Expanding Universes (1966)
Doctoral advisor	Dennis Sciama
Other academic advisors	Robert Berman
Doctoral students	Bruce Allen Raphael Bousso Bernard Carr Fay Dowker Christophe Galfard [fr] Gary Gibbons Thomas Hertog Raymond Laflamme Don Page Malcolm Perry Christopher Pope Marika Taylor Alan Yuille Wu Zhongchao 27 others
Website	www.hawking.org.uk
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Books:

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1. Properties of Expanding Universes
   

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2. The Nature of Space and Time
   

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3. George and the Big Bang
   

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4. Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
   

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5. George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt
   

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6. The Large, the Small and the Human Mind
   

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7. George's Secret Key to the Universe (Russian Edition)
   

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8. A Brief History of Time
   

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9. My Brief History
   

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10. The Theory of Everything
    

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11. Three Hundred Years of Gravitation
    

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12. The Grand Design
    

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13. The Collected Papers of Stephen Hawking
    

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14. The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
    

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15. The Universe in a Nutshell
    

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16. A Briefer History of Time
    

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17. Hawking on the Big Bang and Black Holes
    

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18. God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History
    

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19. On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy
    

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20. Brief Answers to the Big Questions
    

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Lectures:

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• Does God play Dice?
• Godel and the End of the Universe
• Into a Black Hole
• Life in the Universe
• Space and Time Warps
• The Beginning of Time
• The Origin of the Universe
• Do black holes have no hair?