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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.
Jan 7, 2012 · But like his mind, Hawking's illness seems to be singular. Most patients with ALS —also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, for the famous baseball player who succumbed to the disease—are...
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...
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 his ...
Mar 14, 2018 · Hawking suffered from ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), a neurodegenerative disease also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, which is usually fatal within a few years. He was diagnosed in 1963 ...
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.
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.
