Everything you could ever want to know about Stephen Hawking . . . Well, almost!
Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 (300 years after the death of Galileo) in Oxford, England...
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If you have ever wanted to know about the man who wrote the all-time best seller 'A Brief History of Time', and more recently the book that is still topping charts all over the world 'The Universe in a Nutshell' then this is an excellent place to start. These pages have been written so that you can learn more about not only Stephen, but also his work.
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