Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA is a British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author. His key scientific works to date have included providing, with Roger Penrose, theorems regarding gravitational singularities in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes should emit radiation, which is today known as Hawking radiation (or sometimes as Bekenstein-Hawking radiation).
He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and in 2009 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. Hawking was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge between 1979 and 2009. Subsequently, he became research director at the university's Centre for Theoretical Cosmology.
Stephen Hawking was born on January 8, 1942 in Oxford, England, United Kingdom. In Cardology (Destiny Cards), January 8, 1942 corresponds to the Six of Spades, making the Six of Spades his Birth Card.
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“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” - Stephen Hawking
