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Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 on Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. He was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.

His scientific works include a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. Hawking was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. He was a vigorous supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Hawking was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. In 2002, Hawking was ranked number 25 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge between 1979 and 2009 and achieved commercial success with works of popular science in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general; his book "A Brief History of Time" appeared on the British Sunday Times best-seller list for a record-breaking 237 weeks.

At the release party for the home video version of A Brief History of Time (1991), Leonard Nimoy, who had played Spock on Star Trek (1966), learned that Hawking was interested in appearing on the series. Nimoy made the necessary contact, and Hawking played a holographic simulation of himself in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) in 1993. The same year, his synthesizer voice was recorded for the song "Keep Talking" by the rock band Pink Floyd, and in 1999 for an appearance on The Simpsons (1989). Hawking also guest-starred on Futurama (1999) and The Big Bang Theory (2007).

Hawking allowed the use of his copyrighted voice in the biographical drama The Theory of Everything (2014), in which he was portrayed by Eddie Redmayne in an Academy Award-winning role. Hawking died at age 76 in his home in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, early in the morning of 14 March 2018.

(1988) Author of the book &quot;A Brief History of Time&quot;.

(1973) Author (with G.F.R. Ellis) of &quot;The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time&quot;.

(1991) Appeared in &quot;Waves of the Future&quot;, segment of the six-part educational miniseries <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0204150/?ref_=nmwrk">The Astronomers (1991)</a>, narrated by <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0000328/?ref_=nmwrk">Richard Chamberlain</a> and dealing with gravity waves (MPI Video).

(1994) Provided additional vocals in the song &quot;Keep Talking&quot; by the rock band <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0969139/?ref_=nmwrk">Pink Floyd</a>, on their album &quot;The Division Bell&quot;.

(2002) Author (non-fiction) of &quot;The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe&quot; (New Millennium).

(2001) Author of the book &quot;The Universe in a Nutshell&quot;.

(2005) Author of the book &quot;God Created the Integers&quot;.

(2014) Provided voice work in the song &quot;Talkin&#39; Hawkin&#39;&quot; by the rock band <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0969139/?ref_=nmwrk">Pink Floyd</a>, on their final album &quot;The Endless River&quot;.

(March 8, 2018) Just six days before his death, and on the exact date of the original premiere 40 years earlier, Hawking lent his voice synthesizer skills to BBC4 Radio&#39;s broadcast of the Hexagon Phase premiere of the Hitchhiker&#39;s Guide to the Galaxy radio show, as the voice of Guide Mk II.

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