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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 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 ...
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.
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 ...
6 days ago · He was elected a research fellow at Gonville and Caius College at Cambridge. In the early 1960s Hawking contracted amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an incurable degenerative neuromuscular disease. He continued to work despite the disease’s progressively disabling effects. Stephen Hawking.
May 5, 2018 · Stephen Hawking overcame the limitations of a debilitating disease to make major contributions to science. He did this through remarkable persistence, determination, conviction, courage, and will. He was supported in this by his family, his students, and his colleagues.
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.
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