Fun Trivia : Stephen W Hawking

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Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information

Stephen W Hawking

Which city in England was Stephen Hawking born?

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Oxford. Hawking was born during WW II, so although the family home was in north London, his parents thought Oxford was safer.



Hawking was born on Jan. 8, 1942. What makes this date so significant to Hawking?

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It is the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death.. Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary of Gaileo's death (Jan. 8, 1642). Einstein was born on Mar. 14, 1897. Polish astronomer and mathematician Nicholaus Copernicus was born on Feb. 19, 1473. Newton's Principia Mathematica was first published in 1687.



In 1968, what prize did Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose win for their paper proving time had a beginning?

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Second place in the Gravity Research Foundation contest. Hawking said he and Penrose split a prize of {$300.00.} One of the many, many honors given Hawking was a CBE in 1982. He was made a Companion of Honor in 1989. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974, and is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States. Hawking also has 12 honorary degrees.



Which distinguished individual once held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge that has been held since 1979 by Hawking?

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Isaac Newton. The Lucasian Chair of Mathematics was created in 1663. Newton held the post of professor of mathematics at Cambridge in 1669. None of the other three ever taught at Cambridge. Feynman won the Nobel Prize for quantum mechanics in 1965, and was teaching at Caltech until his death in 1988. Einstein spent the last 20 years of his life at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Gott wrote the book 'Time Travel In Einstein's Universe', and is a professor of astrophysics at Princeton.