Stephen Hawking was an extraordinary person. The mathematical physicist who transformed our theories of gravity, black holes ...

Graham Farmelo has written the first authorised biography of the famous physicist. He should be applauded for digging into various controversies – but could have gone further, says Jacob Aron ...

Stephen Hawking spent much of his adult life with fewer physical options than almost anyone reading this article. Yet between ...

In December 1962, a 20-year-old young man was enjoying ice skating in an English park. However, his legs became tangled, and ...

"Writing the book has been the greatest privilege of my life," says biographer Graham Farmelo A new authorized biography of Stephen Hawking, written by Graham Farmelo, will be released on Sept. 29 The ...

Stephen Hawking was a theoretical physicist who pioneered new understandings of black holes, the universe, and how much one person can achieve. Hawking died early in the morning on March 14, 2018 — Pi ...

Eight years have passed since the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking died, aged 76, of complications caused by motor ...

The year 1959 started with a bang: January 2 saw the thirty-two-year-old Fidel Castro sweeping to power in Cuba; a month later Buddy Holly died in a plane crash and Indira Gandhi became the leader of ...

Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge between 1979 and 2009, Stephen William Hawking achieved commercial success with several works of popular science in which he discussed ...

Per The Guardian, these revelations surfaced as biographer Graham Farmelo went hunting through family papers while working on what’s being billed as the first authorized Hawking biography. Inside, he ...

Stephen Hawking is fond of suggesting that the end may be in sight for theoretical physics. Hearing Hawking tell you that physics may be coming to an end became something of a cliche in the trade in ...