Stephen Hawking is a brillant astro and theoretical physicist, most known for his
study of black holes, his
book A brief History of Time, and his illness ALS, which has left him almost completly imobile. His other books The Universe in a Nutshell, a Briefer History of Time, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays, On The Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of
Physics and Astronomy.
He is also a pop culture icon, due to his physically disabled status, his status as one of the leading scientists of our time, and his computer that he uses to talk by pressing a variety of symbols for sounds. He has been in the shows Star Trek,
Family Guy, The Simpsons and Futurama among other shows. There is also a
rapper, M.C. Hawking, who uses his voice synthesiser to make lyrics. Stephen Hawking, known also for his wit, takes these in good humor.
Stephen Hawking has had Lou Gehrig'
s Disease for most of his
life and as lived much longer then his doctors originally thought.
"When I hear of Schrödinger's
cat, I reach for my gun." - Stephen Hawking
"I think computer viruses should count as
life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
