Stephen Hawking - English physicist. studied at Oxford and then at Cambridge, where he became a professor of mathematics. He studied the theory of the origin of the world as a result of the Big Bang, as well as the theory of black holes. I hypothesized that small black holes lose energy and then "evaporate." At the beginning of 1960 at the Hawking began to show signs of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which subsequently led to paralysis. After the diagnosis of the disease in 1963, doctors believed that he left to live just two and a half years, but the disease has progressed so quickly and not use the stroller, he began only in the late 1960s. In 2007, he made a flight in zero gravity (on a special plane). Sam himself Hawking says that, as a professor of mathematics, he never received any of mathematics education since high school. In 1965 he married Jane Wilde, and later they had a son Robert, daughter Lucy and son Timoti.Posle divorce from Jane in 1995, Hawking married his nurse, Elaine Mason, with whom he lived for 11 years. In October 2006, they also divorced.