British physicist Stephen Hawking, who is known for his pioneering work on explaining black hole and relativity, died today at the age of 76 years at his home in Cambridge.
Stephen Hawking has been in a wheelchair since the 60s after contracting motor neuron disease at the age of 21. He then lost his voice in a tracheotomy.
But none of these tragedies prevented him from continuing his pioneering work. He was elected Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and published a performer on the origin and fate of the universe, A Brief History of Time, which became best-seller.
His condition worsened, and Hawking could only communicate by typing, using a sensor activated by a muscle in his cheek. In 2014, Intel and SwiftKey they created a language model of communication to reduce the time and effort required to type Hawking.
Hawking has also appeared on television shows such as The Simpsons, Futurama and The Big Bang Theory. The 2014 Oscar-winning film The Theory of Everything chronicles his life.
His three children, Lucy, Robert and Timothy they mentioned:
"We are deeply saddened that our beloved father has died today.
He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years to come. ”
The BBC has one great publication by 2016 in some of Hawking's most important works, and the Guardian was released photographs recording his life.
