Stephen Hawking
1942–2018 · Theoretical physicist, cosmologist
Born in Oxford, undergraduate at University College — first-class BA in physics. Lucasian Professor at Cambridge from 1979.
Stephen William Hawking was born in Oxford on 8 January 1942 and read physics at University College, graduating with a first-class BA. The bulk of his career was at Cambridge, where from 1979 to 2009 he held the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics — Newton's old chair. His Oxford footprint is short: a wartime birth in the city and a brilliant undergraduate degree before he moved to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, for postgraduate work and stayed for the rest of his life. He died in Cambridge in 2018 and is buried at Westminster Abbey.
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