A brief history Timeline...

Jan 8, 1942

Stephen Hawking is born to Frank and Isobel Hawking.

~1950

Stephen Hawking moved to St. Albans and attended St. Albans school.

Stephen and his friends build a computer called L.U.C.E(Logical Uniselect Processing Engine)

1959

Took Oxford Entrance Exam

1962

Arived at Cambridge, advised byDenis Sciama

1963

Diagnosed with ALS and not expected to live past 2 years

July 14, 1965

Marries Jane Wilde. Has 3 children

1968

Recieves Ph.D.

~1973

No longer can grasp a pencil and paper pad

1979

Holds position as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge

1989

Publishes book 'A brief history of time'

1991

Divorces Jane Wilde

1992

Has to use one finger on one hand to control his wheelchair and speech synthesizer

2009

Retired from position at Cambridge

March 14, 2018

The day Stephen Hawking died

Awards/Achievements

1975 - Edding Medal of Royal Astronomical Society
1975 - Pius XI goal medal
1976 - Maxwel medal of integrity physics
1976 - Hughes Medal
1978 - Albert Einstein Award
1979 - Albert Einstein Medal
1985 - Gold Medal of Royal Society
1981 - Franklin Medal of Franklin Institute
1987 - Paul Dirac Medal and Prize
1988 - Wolf prize in physics
1989 - Britanica Award
2006 - Won Copley Medal
2009 - Hawking won medal of freedom presented by Barack Obama
2013 - Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundemental Physics

Publications

(Newest to Oldest)

A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation
The Conformal BMS Group
Superrotation Charge and Supertranslation Hair on Black Holes.
Black holes: The Reith Lectures.
George and the Blue Moon.
Soft Hair on Black Holes.
The Information Paradox for Black Holes
George and the Unbreakable Code.
Information Preservation and Weather Forecasting for Black Holes.
My Brief History.
Vector Fields in Holographic Cosmology.
George and the Big Bang.
Quantum Probabilities for Inflation from Holography.
Accelerated Expansion from Negative Lambda.
George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt.
The dreams that stuff is made of: The most astounding papers of quantum physics - and how they shook the scientific world.
Local Observation in Eternal inflation.
The Grand Design.
The No-Boundary Measure in the Regime of Eternal Inflation.
George's Secret Key to the Universe.
Why did the Universe Inflate?
The Classical Universes of the No-Boundary Quantum State.
No-Boundary Measure of the Universe.
Volume Weighting in the No Boundary Proposal.
God created the Integers.
The measure of the universe.
Populating the landscape: A Top down approach.
Information loss in black holes.
A non singular universe.
A briefer history of time.
Black holes and the information paradox.
The grand Stephen Hawking reader: Life and work.
Cosmology from the top down.
On the Shoulders of Giants.
The illustrated theory of everything: The origin and fate of the universe.
Brane new world
Why does inflation start at the top of the hill?
Sixty years in a nutshell.
Chronology protection: Making the world safe for historians.
The Future of space-time.
Living with ghosts.
The universe in a nutshell.
Trace anomaly driven inflation.
Large N cosmology.
Brane new world.
Gravitational waves in open de Sitter space.
de Sitter entropy, quantum entanglement and AdS / CFT.
Stability of AdS and phase transitions.
Brane world black holes.
Charged and rotating AdS black holes and their CFT duals.
Primordial black holes: Pair creation, Lorentzian condition, and evaporation.
A debate on open inflation.
Rotation and the AdS / CFT correspondence.
Nut charge, anti-de Sitter space and entropy.
Gravitational entropy and global structure.
Open inflation.
Lorentzian condition in quantum gravity.
Inflation, singular instantons and eleven-dimensional cosmology.
Open inflation, the four form and the cosmological constant.
Open inflation without false vacua.
Comment on 'quantum creation of an open universe', by Andrei Linde.
Is information lost in black holes?.
Bulk charges in eleven-dimensions.
Evaporation of cosmological black holes.
(Anti)evaporation of Schwarzschild-de Sitter black holes.
Models for chronology selection.
Evaporation of primordial black holes.
Trace anomaly of dilaton coupled scalars in two-dimensions.
Loss of quantum coherence through scattering off virtual black holes.
Evolution of near extremal black holes.
Evaporation of cosmological black holes.
The Nature of space and time.
Pair creation of black holes during inflation.
Loss of information in black holes.
Primordial black holes: Tunneling versus no boundary proposal.
Pair creation and evolution of black holes in inflation.
The Gravitational Hamiltonian in the presence of nonorthogonal boundaries.
Black holes in inflation.
The Nature of space and time.
Virtual black holes.
The Probability for primordial black holes.
Pair production of black holes on cosmic strings.
Duality between electric and magnetic black holes.
The Gravitational Hamiltonian, action, entropy and surface terms.
Quantum coherence and closed timelike curves.
Black holes and baby universes and other essays.
Entropy, Area, and black hole pairs.
Nature of space and time.
Euclidean quantum gravity.
The Superscattering matrix for two-dimensional black holes.
Quantum coherence in two-dimensions.
Supersymmetric Bianchi models and the square root of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation.
The Origin of time asymmetry.
Einstein's dream: Expeditions to the frontiers of space-time.
Naked and thunderbolt singularities in black hole evaporation.
Evaporation of two-dimensional black holes.
Kinks and topology change.
Evaporation of two-dimensional black holes.
Selection rules for topology change.
The no boundary condition and the arrow of time.
The Chronology protection conjecture.
Wormholes in string theory.
The Alpha parameters of wormholes.
The chronology protection conjecture.
Beginning or end? Inaugural lecture.
The Effective action for wormholes.
The beginning of the universe.
The spectrum of wormholes.
Gravitational radiation from collapsing cosmic string loops.
Wormholes and nonsimply connected manifolds.
Baby universes.
Wormholes in dimensions 1 - 4.
The Formation and evolution of cosmic strings.
Do Wormholes Fix The Constants Of Nature?.
The Edge Of Space-time.
Baby Universes And The Nonrenormalizability Of Gravity.
Wormholes in Space-Time.
Baby universes.
A Brief History Of Time.
Quantum Cosmology.
The Quantum Theory Of The Universe.
Black Holes From Cosmic Strings.
The Direction Of Time.
How probable is inflation?.
The Origin Of The Universe.
The Ground State Of The Universe.
Quantum Coherence Down the Wormhole.
The Schrodinger Equation In Quantum Cosmology And String Theory.
Three Hundred Years Of Gravitation.
Quantum Cosmology.
A Natural Measure On The Set Of All Universes.
The Density Matrix Of The Universe.
Lectures On Quantum Cosmology.
Lectures On Quantum Cosmology S.
Published in In *De Vega, H.
Who's Afraid Of (higher Derivative) Ghosts?.
Operator Ordering and the Flatness of the Universe.
The Arrow Of Time In Cosmology.
Quantum Cosmology - Beyond Minisuperspace.
The Quantum Mechanics Of The Universe.
The Origin of Structure in the Universe.
Limits On Inflationary Models Of The Universe.
Higher Derivatives In Quantum Cosmology.
Nontrivial Topologies In Quantum Gravity.
Numerical Calculations Of Minisuperspace Cosmological Models.
The Isotropy Of The Universe.
The Cosmological Constant Is Probably Zero.
Quantum Fluctuations As The Cause Of Inhomogeneity In The Universe.
The Very Early Universe.
The Quantum State of the Universe.
The Unification Of Physics.
Wave Function of the Universe.
Quantum Cosmology.
Euclidean Approach To The Inflationary Universe.
The Boundary Conditions For Gauged Supergravity.
Fluctuations In The Inflationary Universe.
Thermodynamics of Black Holes in anti-De Sitter Space.
Positive Mass Theorems For Black Holes.
The Development of Irregularities in a Single Bubble Inflationary Universe.
The Unpredictability of Quantum Gravity.
Bubble Collisions in the Very Early Universe.
Supercooled Phase Transitions in the Very Early Universe.
The Boundary Conditions Of The Universe.
The Cosmological Constant And The Weak Anthropic Principle.
Is The End In Sight For Theoretical Physics?.
The Loss Of Quantum Coherence Due To Virtual Black Holes.
Why Is The Apparent Cosmological Constant Zero? (talk).
Superspace And Supergravity.
Interacting Quantum Fields Around A Black Hole.
Acausal Propagation In Quantum Gravity.
The Path Integral Approach To Quantum Gravity.
Introductory Survey.
Quantum Gravitational Bubbles.
Yang-mills Instantons And The S Matrix.
Space-Time Foam.
Gravitational Multi – Instantons.
Symmetry Breaking By Instantons In Supergravity.
The Propagation Of Particles In Space-time Foam.
Classification of Gravitational Instanton Symmetries.
Relativity Today.
General Relativity.
Theoretical Advances In General Relativity.
Euclidean Quantum Gravity.
Path Integrals and the Indefiniteness of the Gravitational Action.
Quantum Gravity and Path Integrals.
Generalized Spin Structures in Quantum Gravity.
Cosmological Event Horizons, Thermodynamics, and Particle Creation.
The Quantum Mechanics of Black Holes.
Black Holes and Unpredictability.
Gravitational Instantons.
Zeta Function Regularization of Path Integrals in Curved Space-Time.
Action Integrals and Partition Functions in Quantum Gravity.
Gamma rays from primordial black holes.
Breakdown of Predictability in Gravitational Collapse.
Path Integral Derivation of Black Hole Radiance.
Black Holes and Thermodynamics.
A New Topology for Curved Space-Time Which Incorporates the Causal, Differential, and Conformal Structures.
Particle Creation by Black Holes.
Black hole explosions.
Black holes in the early Universe.
Causally continuous space-times.
A Variational principle for black holes.
The Four laws of black hole mechanics.
The Large scale structure of space-time.
The rotation and distortion of the universe.
Why is the Universe isotropic?.
Solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations with many black holes.
Energy and angular momentum flow into a black hole.
Black holes in the Brans-Dicke theory of gravitation.
Theory of the detection of short bursts of gravitational radiation.
Black holes in general relativity.
Gravitational radiation from colliding black holes.
Evidence for black holes in binary star systems.
The Definition and occurrence of singularities in general relativity.
Stable and generic properties in general relativity.
Gravitationally collapsed objects of very low mass.
The Singularities of gravitational collapse and cosmology.
The conservation of matter in general relativity.
Singularities in collapsing stars and universes.
On the Rotation of the universe.
Gravitational radiation in an expanding universe.
The Cosmic black body radiation and the existence of singularities in our universe.
The Existence of cosmic time functions.
The occurrence of singularities in cosmology.
Perturbations of an expanding universe.
Singularities in the universe.
Helium production in anisotropic big bang universes.
The Occurrence of singularities in cosmology.
The Occurrence of singularities in cosmology.
Singularities and the geometry of space-time.
Singularities in homogeneous world models.
On the Hoyle-Narlikar theory of gravitation.
Occurrence of singularities in open universes.
Properties of Expanding Universes.