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  2. Mar 14, 2018 · Stephen Hawking died of ALS after battling the disease for 55 years. Here's what to know about ALS and Hawking's case.

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    • Jamie Ducharme
  3. Hawking had a rare early-onset, slow-progressing form of motor neurone disease (MND; also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig's disease), a fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects the motor neurones in the brain and spinal cord, which gradually paralysed him over decades.

  4. Jan 7, 2012 · Learn about the neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, and how the famous physicist has lived past 70 with it. Find out what we know about the causes, variants and treatments of ALS and why Hawking is an outlier.

  5. Mar 14, 2018 · A tribute to the world-renowned physicist who defied the odds and made groundbreaking contributions to cosmology and black-hole physics. Learn about his life, achievements, challenges and legacy in this comprehensive article by Martin Rees.

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  6. Mar 15, 2018 · Stephen Hawking, who died Wednesday at the age of 76, had lived with the crippling disease ALS for 55 years. How did he do it? Probably in no small part because he was rich, famous and...

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  7. Mar 14, 2018 · Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest physicists of our time, didn’t let a rare motor neuron illness that bound him to a wheelchair stop him from roaming everywhere else.

  8. Apr 13, 2018 · Stephen William Hawking died on 14 March (Albert Einstein's birthday) at the age of 76 after decades of battling the incurable disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). His early scientific work transformed our understanding of general relativity, Einstein's theory of gravitation.

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