New Delhi, May 5 -- Stephen Hawking was an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist whose life combined extreme physical adversity with extraordinary intellectual reach. Born in Oxford in 1942, he studied at Oxford and Cambridge and was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in his early twenties. Despite this, he went on to become one of the world's most recognisable scientific figures through his work on black holes, singularities and cosmology. He was also known for making complex scientific ideas accessible to the public through books and talks. Hawking died in 2018, but his legacy continues to stand at the intersection of science, resilience and curiosity.

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