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Essay Archive - Stephen J. Hawking by Rachel Finck
Stephen J. Hawking by Rachel Finck
Stephen Hawking was born in January of 1942 in Oxford, England. He grew
up near London and was educated at Oxford, from which he received his BA in 1962,
and Cambridge, where he received his doctorate in theoretical physics. Stephen
Hawking is a brilliant and highly productive researcher, and, since 1979, he has
held the Lucasian professorship in mathematics at Cambridge, the very chair once
held by Isaac Newton. Although still relatively young, Hawking is already being
compared to such great intel....
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