Legendary Physicist Stephen Hawking Passes Away at 76

It is a devastating 24-hour interval for the scientific community with news of the passing away of one of the almost influential scientists in the world. Stephen Hawking, who was hugely admired for his groundbreaking contributions to the research on relativity and blackness holes, has died at the age of 76.

The family including married woman, Lucy, and two sons, Robert and Tim, expressed their grief and said that Hawking passed "peacefully" in his slumber. "He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years," they said in a joint statement.

Physicist Stephen Hawking Has Passed Away; Aged 76

The extraordinaire cosmo-physicist was born in Oxford in 1942 and worked at the world-renowned Oxford University as a reader, later earning his Ph.D. from the Cambridge University. Hawking, who was often seen talking with the help of a computer, contracted motor neuron disease in 1963 and was given two years to live, Yet, he went on to alive several more, and outlined his famous theory that black holes emit "Hawking radiation" in 1974.

Hawking also appeared in the science comedy show The Big Bang Theory a few times, and once in Simpsons, and was recently honored with a biopic, The Theory of Everything in which British thespian Eddie Redmayne played the scientist's office. Hawking also toyed with flat-earthers' emotions with his volumeA Brief History of Time which sold more than than 10 one thousand thousand copies.

But perhaps, one of the greatest contributions by Hawking was his curiosity towards the world and his zeal virtually the discovering answers to the astounding questions of the universe.

This consummate set of laws can requite u.s. the answers to questions like how did the universe brainstorm; where is it going and will it have an end? If so, how will it stop? If we discover the answers to these questions, nosotros really shall know the mind of God.