Stephen Hawking is a world-renowned British theoretical physicist who is widely believed to have the greatest living mind in the world. Hawking attended St Albans High School for Girls and St Albans School in Hertfordshire and went onto to do research in Cosmology at Cambridge. After gaining his Ph. D. he became first a Research Fellow and later on a Professional Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Hawking has made significant contribution to Physics and has received many awards worldwide including 12 honorary degrees, CBE in 1982 and Companion of Honor (CH) in 1989 and he is the Fellow of the US National Academy of Sciences. Hawking's wrote A Brief History of Time which chronicles his life and work, who despite his near total paralysis, is one of the great minds of all time.
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