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单词 Hawking, Stephen William (1942–2018)
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Hawking, Stephen William (1942–2018)

Physics
  • who in 1979 became Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. Working with Roger Penrose (1931– ), who had shown how a singularity results from a black hole, he postulated that the original big bang must have come from a singularity. He also showed how black holes can emit particles by the Hawking process. See Big-bang Theory (Feature)


Mathematics
  • who was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. He suffered from motor neurone disease for most of his adult life. His main contributions relate to the understanding of the nature of black holes: together with Roger Penrose, he mathematically proved that, in a cosmos obeying the laws of general relativity and standard cosmological models, singularities would emerge and that the universe necessarily began with a singularity; he also theorized the ‘Hawking radiation’ emitted by black holes.


Astronomy
  • He established a powerful reputation, despite being afflicted by a progressively disabling motor neurone disease for nearly all of his adult life. He drew on the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics to study singularities in the Big Bang and black holes, showing that small black holes emit Hawking radiation. He turned to popularization with A Brief History of Time (1988) which sold more copies than any other book on science. Much of Hawking’s work was directed towards a single theory that will unite gravity with quantum mechanics.


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