Astronomer · 1942 CE – 2018 CE

Stephen Hawking

History of AstronomyContemporary Astronomy

Biography

Stephen Hawking united general relativity and quantum mechanics at the edge of black holes, predicting in 1974 that they slowly radiate and shrink — Hawking radiation. With Roger Penrose he proved that the universe must have begun in a singularity. His best-seller A Brief History of Time made cosmology a global conversation.

Scientific contributions

Predicted that black holes emit radiation (Hawking radiation)
Developed the theorems on spacetime singularities with Penrose
Wrote A Brief History of Time (1988)

Major publications

A Brief History of Time1988 CE

Knowledge connections

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