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1、,Stephen William Hawking,1,There was never a start and would be no end.2.My goal is simple.It is complete understanding of the universe,why it is as it is and why it exists at all.3.While theres life,there is hope.4Life is not fair,regardless of your circumstances,you can go.6.Dont cry because it is
2、 over,smile because it happened.,Group 5,Hawking grew up outside London in an intellectual family.He was an awkward schoolboy,but knew from early on that he wanted to study science.In 1959 he won a scholarship to Oxford University,where his intellectual capabilities became more noticeable.In 1962 he
3、 got his degree with honors and went to Cambridge University.There he became intrigued with black holes and“space-time singularities,”or events in which the laws of physics seem to break down.After receiving his PhD,he stayed at Cambridge,becoming known even in his 20s for his pioneering ideas and u
4、se of Einsteins formulas(公式）,as well as his questioning of older,established physicists.,In 1968 he joined the staff of the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge and began to apply the laws of thermodynamics to black holes by means of very complicated mathematics.He published the very technical book,L
5、arge Scale Structure of Space-Time but soon afterwards made a startling discovery.It had always been thought that nothing could escape a black hole;Hawking suggested that under certain conditions,a black hole could emit（发出）subatomic particles.That is now know as Hawking Radiation.He continued workin
6、g on the theory of the origin of the universe,and in doing so found ways to link relativity(gravity)with quantum mechanics(the inner workings of atoms).This contributed enormously to what physicists call Grand Unified Theory,a way of explaining,in one equation,all physical matter in the universe.,At
7、 the remarkably young age of 32,he was named a fellow of the Royal Society.He received the Albert Einstein Award,the most prestigious in theoretical physics.And in 1979,he was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge,the same post held by Sir Isaac Newton 300 years earlier.There he b
8、egan to question the big bang theory,which by then most had accepted.Perhaps,he suggested,there was never a start and would be no end,but just change-a constant transition of one universe giving way to another through glitches in space-time.All the while,he was digging into exploding black holes,str
9、ing theory,and the birth of black holes in our own galaxy.,In 1988 Hawking wrote A Brief History of Time:From the Big Bang to Black Holes,explaining the evolution of his thinking about the cosmos（宇宙）for a general audience.It became a best-seller of long standing and established his reputation as an
10、accessible genius.,He wrote other popular articles and appeared in movies and television.He remains extremely busy,his work hardly slowed by Lou Gehrigs disease(amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,a disease that affects muscle control)for which he uses a wheelchair and speaks through a computer and voice synthesizer.,Bye,
