British physicist Stephen Hawking, known for his unparalleled contribution to the field has passed away this morning.His age was 76.It is a big big loss for this world.We had lost him on the birthday of Famous scientists Albert Einstein.
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Hawking's mental genius and physical disability had made him a household name and inspiration across the globe. Hawking defied predictions he would only live for a few years after developing a form of motor neurone disease that left him confined to a wheelchair.
Most of his life was spent in a wheelchair crippled by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a form of motor neurone disease that attacks the nerves controlling voluntary movement.
"I am quite often asked: how do you feel about having ALS?" he once wrote. "The answer is, not a lot. I try to lead as normal a life as possible, and not think about my condition, or regret the things it prevents me from doing, which are not that many."
Inside the shell of his increasingly useless body was a razor-sharp mind, fascinated by the nature of the Universe, how it was formed and how it might end.
Human race will perish and Earth will turn into fireball by 2600, warned Stephen Hawking
"My goal is simple," he once said. "It is complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."
Hawking eventually put Newton's gravitational theories to the test in 2007 when, aged 65, he went on a weightless flight in the United States as a prelude to a hoped-for sub-orbital spaceflight.
His 1988 book "A Brief History of Time" sought to explain to non-scientists the fundamental theories of the universe and it became an international bestseller, bringing him global acclaim.
It was followed in 2001 by "The Universe in a Nutshell".
In 2007, Hawking published a children's book, "George's Secret Key to the Universe", with his daughter, Lucy, seeking to explain the workings of the solar system, asteroids, his pet subject of black holes and other celestial bodies.
Stephen William Hawking was born on January 8, 1942 -- 300 years to the day after the death of the father of modern science, Galileo Galilei.
Let his soul rest in peace
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