tuhin4u (Unstopable Lover + Mariana World DIAMOND member): As the disease spread, Hawking became less mobile, and was confined to a wheelchair. Talking grew more challenging and, in 1985, an emergency tracheotomy caused his total loss of speech. A speech generating device constructed at Cambridge, combined with a software program, serves as his electronic voice today, allowing Hawking to select his words by moving the muscles in his cheek. *
02-10-14 - 04:30:04

tuhin4u (Unstopable Lover + Mariana World DIAMOND member): Just before his diagnosis, Hawking met Jane Wilde, and the two were married in 1965. The couple had three children before separating. Hawking remarried in 1995 but divorced in 2006. *
02-10-14 - 04:31:02

tuhin4u (Unstopable Lover + Mariana World DIAMOND member): Hawking continued at Cambridge after his graduation, serving as a research fellow, and later as a professional fellow. In 1974, he was inducted into the Royal Society, a worldwide fellowship of scientists. In 1979, he was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, the most famous academic chair in the world (the second holder was Sir Isaac Newton, also a member of the Royal Society. *
02-10-14 - 04:31:56

tuhin4u (Unstopable Lover + Mariana World DIAMOND member): Over the course of his career, Hawking studied the basic laws governing the universe. He proposed that, since the universe boasts a beginning – the Big Bang – it will likely have an ending. *
02-10-14 - 04:34:17

tuhin4u (Unstopable Lover + Mariana World DIAMOND member): Working with fellow cosmologist Roger Penrose, he demonstrated that Einstein's General Theory of Relativity suggested that space and time began at the birth of the universe, and ends within black holes, a result that implied that Einstein's theory of General Relativity and quantum theory must be united. *
02-10-14 - 04:35:54