Stephen Hawking (Stephen Hawking) is the most important contemporary physicist and cosmologist, known as the most outstanding theoretical physicist after Einstein, but also known as "King of the Universe". He was born in Oxford, England, on January 8, 1942, and unfortunately suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) at the age of 21, paralyzed and unable to pronounce. 1988, Hawking received the Wolf Prize for Physics; in 1989, the Prince Asturias Award; in 2006, the Award for Contribution to Popular Science.