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The ALS Association mourns the loss of Dr. Stephen Hawking and commemorates his life and legacy. Hawking, a renowned physicist and best-selling author who famously studied black holes and whose life was depicted in the 2014 film The Theory of Everything, was diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, in 1963.
Jan 9, 2012 · Editor’s note: Stephen Hawking passed away March 14, 2018. In this analysis from 2012, an expert on Lou Gehrig’s disease explains what we know about this debilitating condition and how Hawking ...
Jul 17, 2024 · Stephen Hawking was a scientist known for his work with black holes and relativity, and the author of popular science books like 'A Brief History of Time.' ... (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease). In a ...
Mar 14, 2018 · Hawking had a form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Early-onset and slow-progressing, he was diagnosed at age 21 during his studies at the University of ...
Mar 14, 2018 · British physicist Stephen Hawking was one of the most famous sufferers of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the fatal neurological disease that paralysed his body but did nothing to curb his ...
Jan 8, 2018 · Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking turns 76 today (Jan. 8) — an age well beyond what he was expected to reach when he was diagnosed with the incurable neurological disease amyotrophic lateral ...
Mar 14, 2018 · Its most famous sufferer was famed physicist Stephen Hawking, who died at the age of 76. ALS is also called Lou Gehrig’s disease, after the famous baseball player who retired in 1939 because of ...
