Meet Stephen Hawking. He was born on January 8th 1942 in oxford england. He grew up with a highly educated family. Stephen Hawking was educated in Oxford university. Stephen Hawking is famous because in 1974 he theorized that black holes emit radiation and in later studies it was found that he was correct and this is still very very new to us and cosmologists are still studying this topic to this day. A word that describes Stephen Hawking is disabled Because he had ALS which kills the nerve cells in the brain and spine and because of that he had to sit in a wheelchair for most of his life and even a computer to talk for him for a few years. Stephen Hawking was also described as intelligent because he theorized and discovered many things that were correct and he could remember 40 pages worth of equations from memory even though he had ALS. Stephen Hawking said"Quiet people have the loudest minds" and he said that because he can't talk. Did you know Stephen Hawking was born on the same month and day as me. Stephen Hawking was an interesting person.