![]() ![]() Then there was his appearance on the sitcom The Big Bang Theory, where he puts the normally obnoxious nerd Sheldon in his place by pointing out a simple arithmetic error. Hawking’s proposal of the universe starting with a Big Bang and ending in a Big Crunch, folding in his rumination that black holes emitted heat and radiation and pushing Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity forward with quantum mechanics, created waves within the otherwise sleepy physics community, questioning what we knew of our past and suggesting a future that no one had dared to think about. Hawking’s thesis on black holes and the expansion of the universe made him think about how the universe developed in the first place, and how it would theoretically end. Then there was a little Hollywood flick starring Eddie Redmayne as Hawking, The Theory of Everything, that further cemented Hawking’s reputation into the public’s imagination as the epitome of physics and science.īut Hawking’s initial claim to fame was rooted in the very birth and death of our cosmos. ![]() His whirling around his wheelchair was immortalized in such geek fandoms with appearances in The Simpsons and Star Trek. Hawking was arguably the most recognizable modern scientist, thanks to a perfect storm of pop culture resonance and scientific achievement. He was 76- beating an initial diagnosis in 1963 at age 21 that suggested he’d be dead within a few years. On Wednesday, British physicist Stephen Hawking died after a decades-long battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. ![]()
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