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=﻿Stephen Hawking=

Stephan Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, In Oxford, England. By an interesting coincidence, this day marked the three-hundredth anniversary of the death of Galileo, who is often considered the worlds first true scientist. Stephen pointed out that "two hundred thousand other babies were also born on that day" and that he doesn't "know whether any of them were later interested in astronomy."

Stephen is a physicist. This area of science is improtant to the world because phyisicists unlock secrets about the world and the way things work.

Stephen is best known for being one of the worlds smartest men (with an IQ estimated to be around 200 - 250), his work on black holes and the most interesting fact that he is can only move his hand that controls a portable speaking program that lets him "speak" with a sythetic voice. He writes what he wants to say on the screen and the voice says it out loud. This happened when Stephen was 21, in 1963 he developed a disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, and has remaind in this wheelchair since.

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Stephen discovered that black holes emit radiation, which can be detected with a special instrument, and that they eventually disintergrate. His discovery has made the research of black holes possible. Here is a list of the awards he has won. []
 * 1975 [|Eddington Medal]
 * 1976 [|Hughes Medal] of the [|Royal Society]
 * 1979 [|Albert Einstein Medal]
 * 1981 [|Franklin Medal]
 * 1982 [|Order of the British Empire] (Commander)
 * 1985 [|Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society]
 * 1986 Member of the [|Pontifical Academy of Sciences]
 * 1988 [|Wolf Prize] [|in Physics]
 * 1989 [|Prince of Asturias Awards] in Concord
 * 1989 [|Companion of Honour]
 * 1999 [|Julius Edgar Lilienfeld] Prize of the [|American Physical Society]
 * 2003 Michelson Morley Award of [|Case Western Reserve University]
 * 2006 [|Copley Medal] of the [|Royal Society]
 * 2008 [|Fonseca Price] of the [|University of Santiago de Compostela]
 * 2009 [|Presidential Medal of Freedom], the highest civilian honour in the United States

If I was to become a scientist, i would be a physicist like Stephen Hawking because physics is such an interesting area of science and you can discover lots of coo things.

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