| Authorised form of name | Hawking; Stephen William (1942 - 2018) |
| Dates | 1942 - 2018 |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of birth | 08/01/1942 |
| Date of death | 14/03/2018 |
| Activity | Education:
St Albans School; University College, Oxford; PhD (Trinity Hall, Cambridge)
Career:
Reader, Cambridge University (1974); Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Cambridge University (1979- 2009); PI Distinguished Research Chair at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physicists in Waterloo, Ontario from 2009, first of a projected 40 such Visiting Chairs;
Honours:
CBE 1982; CH 1989
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 21/03/1974 |
| Age at election | 32 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Hughes Medal 1976; Copley Medal 2006 |
| PublishedWorks | 'A Brief History of Time'; 'Black Holes and Baby Universes' ; 'The Universe in a Nutshell' (2001); |
| Source | References:
P Fara, 'Lucasian Professors. From Newton to Hawking: a history of Cambridge University's Lucasian professors of mathematics, ed K C Knox and R Noakes' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 312-313 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/102304634 |
| Code | NA4435 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/GA/GRS/7922 | Hawking, Stephen William | 1976 |
| EC/1974/12 | Hawking, Stephen: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| P/0252 | Portrait of Hawking, Stephen William | 2008 |