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According to his Daughter “Lucy Hawking”, the world greatest Scientist was a mediocre student at school; none of his teachers believed in him, and here is a line from one of his school reports “This boy will never amount to anything.”. However, his classmates nicknamed him “Einstein” for his fervent interest in Science.
Albert Einstein, Michael Faraday, Charles Darwin all of these august men of sciences were undistinguished students back when they were kids.Apparently, the history repeats itself when it comes to all the legendary scientists and their school failures.
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Probably the most astonishing and surprising facts is that, in 2007, Stephen and his daughter authored a book entitled “George's Secret Key to the Universe.". The book aimed to explain to kids the inaccessible scientific concepts, for instance, the big bang, black holes and origin of life , and to make them like science.
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To drag down his depression and isolation that occurred when he first entered the University of Oxford, Stephen Hawking joined the Rowing team, and thanks to his thin build body, he managed to be become Coxswain. Even before his illness, Stephen was an active and athletic man.
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As a freshly graduate student, Hawking progressively began showing symptoms of total clumsiness and tripping. Soon after he had blown the 21 candles on his birthday cake, the miracle was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and his life expectancy dropped down to less than 4years.
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Hawking unveiled his mind’s preoccupation with the ineluctable future of our species, he considered the global worming to be one of the greatest menaces of life on earth. The physicist was also petrified of what is called tipping point, which refers to the stage of the irreversibility of the global warning. He even spoke publicly about Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S from Paris climate agreement.
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Thoughtout his life as a Scientist, the Cambridge distinguished professor was honored by numerous awards from all over the world. In 1974, he was inducted into the Royal Society (the royal academy of science in the U.K.), in the following year, Pope Paul VI awarded him and Roger Penrose the Pius XI Gold Medal for Science. He also went on to receive the Albert Einstein Award and Hughes Medal from the Royal Society.
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Published in 1988, The physicist wrote this book to help the non-scientific sphere to understand all of the fundamental questions and theories; from the big Bang to the black holes. The Book was ranked first in the Sunday times bestseller list for five years consecutively.

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