拓展材料：霍金简介（中英文）Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 (300 years after the death of Galileo) in Oxford, England. His parents' house was in north London, but during the second world war Oxford was considered a safer place to have babies. When he was eight, his family moved to St Albans, a town about 20 miles north of London. At eleven Stephen went to St Albans School, and then on to University College, Oxford, his father's old college. Stephen wanted to do Mathematics, although his father would have preferred medicine. Mathematics was not available at University College, so he did Physics instead. After three years and not very much work he was awarded a first class honours degree in Natural Science.Stephen then went on to Cambridge to do research in Cosmology, there beingno-one working in that area in Oxford at the time. His supervisor was Denis Sciama, although he had hoped to get Fred Hoyle who was working in Cambridge. After gaining his Ph.D. he became first a Research Fellow, and later on a Professorial Fellow at Gonville and Caius College. After leaving the Institute of Astronomy in 1973 Stephen came to the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, and since 1979 has held the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. The chair was founded in 1663 with money left in the will of the Reverend Henry Lucas, who had been the Member of Parliament for the University. It was first held by Isaac Barrow, and then in 1663 by Isaac Newton.Stephen Hawking has worked on the basic laws which govern the universe. With Roger Penrose he showed that Einstein's General Theory of Relativity implied space and time would have a beginning in the Big Bang and an end in black holes. These results indicated it was necessary to unify General Relativity with Quantum Theory, the other great Scientific development of the first half of the 20th Century. One consequence of such a unification that he discovered was that black holes should not be completely black, but should emit radiation and eventually evaporate and disappear. Another conjecture is that the universe has no edge or boundary in imaginary time. This would imply that the way the universe began was completely determined by the laws of science.His many publications include The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime with G F R Ellis, General Relativity: An Einstein Centenary Survey, with W Israel, and 300 Years of Gravity, with W Israel. Stephen Hawking has two popular books published; his best seller A Brief History of Time, and his later book, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays.Professor Hawking has twelve honorary degrees, was awarded the CBE in 1982, and was made a Companion of Honour in 1989. He is the recipient of many awards, medals and prizes and is a Fellow of The Royal Society and a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences.Stephen Hawking continues to combine family life (he has three children and one grandchild), and his research into theoretical physics together with an extensive programme生平简介:史蒂芬·威廉·霍金（Stephen William Hawking），1942年1月8日在英国伦敦出生，曾先后毕业于牛津大学和剑桥大学三一学院，并获剑桥大学哲学博士学位。
他在轮椅上坐了40年，现在全身只有面部肌肉会动，演讲和问答只能通过语音合成器来完成。
英国剑桥大学应用数学及理论物理学系教授，当代最重要的广义相对论和宇宙论家，是本世纪享有国际盛誉的伟人之一，被称为在世的最伟大的科学家，还被称为“宇宙之王”。
1942年1月8日生于英国牛津的霍金刚好出生于伽利略逝世300周年纪念日之时。
70年代他与彭罗斯一道证明了著名的奇性定理，为此他们共同获得了1988年的沃尔夫物理奖。
他因此被誉为继爱因斯坦之后世界上最著名的科学思想家和最杰出的理论物理学家。
他还证明了黑洞的面积定理。
霍金的生平是非常富有传奇性的，在科学成就上，他是有史以来最杰出的科学家之一。
他担任的职务是剑桥大学有史以来最为崇高的教授职务，那是牛顿和狄拉克担任过的卢卡逊数学教授。
他拥有几个荣誉学位，是英国皇家学会会员。
他因患“渐冻症”（肌萎缩性侧索硬化症卢伽雷氏症），禁锢在一把轮椅上达40年之久，他却身残志不残，使之化为优势，克服了残废之患而成为国际物理界的超新星。
他不能写，甚至口齿不清，但他超越了相对论、量子力学、大爆炸等理论而迈入创造宇宙的“几何之舞”。
尽管他那么无助地坐在轮椅上，他的思想却出色地遨游到广袤的时空，解开了宇宙之谜。
霍金的魅力不仅在于他是一个充满传奇色彩的物理天才，也因为他是一个令人折服的生活强者。
他不断求索的科学精神和勇敢顽强的人格力量深深地吸引了每一个知道他的人。
他被誉为“在世的最伟大的科学家””另一个爱因斯坦”"不折不扣的生活强者”。
相关作品:《时间简史续编》作为宇宙学无可争议的权威，霍金的研究成就和生平一直吸引着广大的读者，《时间简史续篇》是为想更多了解霍金教授生命及其学说的读者而编的。
该书以坦白真挚的私人访谈形式，叙述了霍金教授的生平历程和研究工作，展现了在巨大的理论架构后面真实的“人”。
该书不是一部寻常的口述历史，而是对二十世纪人类最伟大的头脑之一的极为感人又迷人的画像和描述。
对于非专业读者，本书无疑是他们享受人类文明成果的机会和滋生宝贵灵感的源泉。
《霍金讲演录——黑洞、婴儿宇宙及其他》，是由霍金1976-1992年间所写文章和演讲稿共13篇结集而成。
讨论了虚时间、有黑洞引起的婴儿宇宙的诞生以及科学家寻求完全统一理论的努力，并对自由意志、生活价值和死亡作出了独到的见解《时空本性》80年前广义相对论就以完整的数学形式表达出来，量子理论的基本原理在70年前也已出现，然而这两种整个物理学中最精确、最成功的理论能被统一在单独的量子引力中吗？世界上最著名的两位物理学家就此问题展开一场辩论。
本书是基于霍金和彭罗斯在剑桥大学的6次演讲和最后辩论而成。
《未来的魅力》本书以史蒂芬·威廉·霍金预测宇宙今后十亿年前景开头，以唐·库比特最后的审判的领悟为结尾，介绍了预言的发展历程，及我们今天预测未来的方法。
该书文字通俗易懂，作者在阐述自己观点的同时，还穿插解答了一些有趣的问题，读来饶有趣味。
《果壳中的宇宙》该书是霍金教授继《时间简史》后最重要的著作。