Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking was a revolutionary British theoretical physicist and cosmologist who fundamentally altered our understanding of black holes and the origins of the universe. Despite being diagnosed with a life-threatening motor neurone disease at the age of twenty-one, he spent over five decades defying medical expectations and contributing ground-breaking theories to science. As a best-selling author and the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, he became one of the most recognizable and influential scientific figures in modern history.