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      • Stephen Hawking developed the motor neuron disease ALS in his early 20s. At that time, he felt that he had been dealt an unfair hand. During his third year at Oxford, he found himself becoming increasingly clumsy and falling frequently.
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  3. Mar 15, 2018 · “One type of ALS is caused by a change in gene A, another by gene B. There are different causes, also, for sporadic ALS,” said Elliott. Over the years there was speculation about...

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  4. Mar 14, 2018 · March 14, 2018 1:52 PM EDT. T he world lost one of its most brilliant scientific minds Wednesday, when legendary physicist Stephen Hawking died at age 76. Hawking’s cause of death was likely...

  5. How Hawking's disease progressed 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).

  6. Death generally comes from respiratory failure, as breathing shuts down, though malnutrition and dehydration from difficulty swallowing also make it harder to stay healthy....

  7. Stephen Hawking told the British Medical Journal that this motor neuron disease has many potential causes, and that his ailment might be due to an inability to absorb vitamins [1]. After numerous tests, the doctors told him that his was an atypical case.

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  8. Mar 14, 2018 · Stephen Hawking was diagnosed in 1963 while still a university student. Early-onset ALS is very rare, Talbot said, occurring in less than two percent of cases. Hawking battled the disease...

  9. Mar 14, 2018 · Hawking, who died on 14 March 2018, was born in Oxford, UK, in 1942 to a medical-researcher father and a philosophy-graduate mother. After attending St Albans School near London, he earned a first ...

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