Stephen Hawking dies aged 76

 

Stephen Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford, England. His parents were extremely intelligent, and both attended the prestigious Oxford University. Because of this, Stephen was pushed from a young age to improve his reading and writing skills and pursue his own passions. He soon discovered a passion for mathematics and decided to study it at university level. Stephen’s father wanted him to study at their alma mater, at Oxford University. However, Oxford did not offer a course on mathematics at that time, so Stephen settled for chemistry and physics instead. Stephen found his years at Oxford incredibly easy and spent most of his time bored out of his mind because the work was not pushing him to the limits of his phenomenal brain. At the end of his undergraduate degree, Hawking had been awarded a First Class undergraduate degree in Natural Science.