Professor Stephen Hawking
Career
- 2009 to Present: Director of Research, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
- 1979 to 2009: Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, University of Cambridge
- 1977 to Present: Professor of Gravitational Physics, University of Cambridge
- 1974 to Present: Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1965-1969: Research Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge
- 1962-1965: Research Student in General Relativity under Dr D W Sciama at DAMTP
Recent Awards and Events
- 2008: Fonseca Prize, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- 2007: First quadraplegic in Zero Gravity, Florida, USA
- 2006: Copley Medal awarded by the Royal Society, London
Selected publications: Technical
- Singularities in Collapsing Stars and Expanding Universes with Dennis William Sciama, 1969 Comments on Astrophysics and Space Physics Vol 1 #1
- The Nature of Space and Time with Roger Penrose, foreword by Michael Atiyah, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1996
- The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime with George Ellis, 1973 ISBN 0521099064
- The Large, the Small, and the Human Mind, (with Abner Shimony, Nancy Cartwright, and Roger Penrose), Cambridge University Press, 1997
- Information Loss in Black Holes, Cambridge University Press, 2005
- God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History, Running Press, 2005
Selected publications: Popular
- A Brief History of Time, (Bantam Press 1988)
- Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays, (Bantam Books 1993)
- The Universe in a Nutshell, (Bantam Press 2001) ISBN 055380202X
- On The Shoulders of Giants. The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy, (Running Press 2002)
- A Briefer History of Time, (Bantam Books 2005)
Selected publications: Children's Fiction
- George's Secret Key to the Universe, (Random House, 2008)
- Unnamed sequel
Selected publications: Films and series
- A Brief History of Time (film)
- Stephen Hawking's Universe
- Horizon: The Hawking Paradox
- Masters of Science Fiction
- Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe
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