A Timeline of Stephen Hawking's Remarkable Life

Prepared by Michael Courts and Sarah Keenihan, The Conversation

Stephen Hawking at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge in 2015. lwpkommunikacio/flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

Acclaimed British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author Stephen Hawking has died aged 76. After being diagnosed at the age of 21, he had lived for more than half a century with motor neurone disease.

A family statement recorded Hawking as saying:

It would not be much of a universe if it wasn’t home to the people you love.

Move through the timeline using the arrows or scrolling.

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Michael Courts, Deputy Section Editor: Politics + Society, and Sarah Keenihan, Section Editor: Science + Technology, The Conversation. This article was originally published on The Conversation.

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