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  1. Mar 14, 2018 · Stephen Hawking in Cambridge, January 1993. Credit: David Montgomery/Getty. When Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor-neuron disease at the age of 21, it wasn’t clear that he would finish ...

  2. 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...

  3. Mar 14, 2018 · Hawking was diagnosed at age 21 with a form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. People with ALS usually have a life expectancy of three to five years...

  4. Mar 14, 2018 · Professor Hawking had just turned 21 when he was diagnosed with a very rare slow-progressing form of ALS, a form of motor neurone disease (MND). He was at the end of his time at Oxford when he ...

  5. Mar 14, 2018 · Hawking had been diagnosed shortly after his 21st birthday as suffering from an unspecified incurable disease, which was then identified as the fatal degenerative motor neurone...

  6. Mar 14, 2018 · Since his early twenties, Hawking had lived with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a disease in which motor neurons die, leaving the brain incapable of controlling muscles.

  7. Mar 13, 2018 · Hawking was 76 years old, more than 50 years older than the age doctors told him he could expect to reach after being diagnosed in 1963 with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called...

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