Essays on Stephen Hawking
The book I’m am Reading is “Hawking” by Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick. It’s a biography of Stephen Hawking, one of the most important scientists of our time. “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it’s the illusion of knowledge.” -Stephen Hawking At twenty-one, he was diagnosed with ALS, a chronic fiber bundle sickness....
Professor Stephen William Hawking was born on January 8th 1942 in Oxford, England. At the age of eleven, Stephen attended St. Albans School before moving on to his first alma mater, University College, Oxford in 1952, where he pursued a degree in physics and received a first-class honours degree in Natural Science after three years...
Morrie Schwartz was 77 when he was diagnosed with ALS in August 1994. He died in November of the following year. Stephen Hawking had just turned 21 when he was told that he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. That was 43 years ago. Schwartz was the subject of Mitch Albom’s best-selling book, “Tuesdays with Morrie,” which...
