Stephen Hawking
1942 to 2018
7 documented presences
7 places
Quo Fuit places 7 dated presences for Stephen Hawking across 7 places, from 1942 to 2018. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Stephen William Hawking (8January 194214March 2018) was an English theoretical astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Stephen Hawking was documented, and when
8 January 1942exact date
Oxfordattested
“Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 in Oxford to Frank and Isobel Eileen Hawking (née Walker).”
source: Wikipedia: Stephen Hawking
1950year
National Institute for Medical Researchattested
“I wanted something more fundamental, and I found it in physics." In 1950, when Hawking's father became head of the division of parasitology at the National Institute for Medical Research, the family moved to St Albans, Hertfordshire.”
source: Wikipedia: Stephen Hawking
1950year
St Albansattested
“I wanted something more fundamental, and I found it in physics." In 1950, when Hawking's father became head of the division of parasitology at the National Institute for Medical Research, the family moved to St Albans, Hertfordshire.”
source: Wikipedia: Stephen Hawking
1979year
University of Cambridgeattested
“In 1979, Hawking was elected Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.”
source: Wikipedia: Stephen Hawking
1985year
CERNattested
“During a visit to CERN on the border of France and Switzerland in mid-1985, Hawking contracted pneumonia, which in his condition was life-threatening; he was so ill that Jane was asked if life support should be terminated.”
source: Wikipedia: Stephen Hawking
2010year
Americaattested
“In 2010, he said: "If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans." Hawking warned that superintelligent artificial intelligence could be pivotal in s…”
source: Wikipedia: Stephen Hawking
14 March 2018exact date
Cambridgeattested
“Hawking died at his home in Cambridge on 14 March 2018, at the age of 76.”
source: Wikipedia: Stephen Hawking
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Places Stephen Hawking is documented in
America1 presence · 2010Cambridge1 presence · 2018Oxford1 presence · 1942University of Cambridge1 presence · 1979
CERN1 presence · 1985
National Institute for Medical Research1 presence · 1950
St Albans1 presence · 1950
Other places tied to Stephen Hawking in the record
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October 1959month
University College, Oxfordmentioned
“In October 1959, at the age of 17, Hawking began his university education at University College, Oxford.”
source: Wikipedia: Stephen Hawking
October 1962month
Trinity Hall, Cambridgementioned
“After receiving a first-class BA degree in physics and completing a trip to Iran with a friend, he began his graduate work at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in October 1962.”
source: Wikipedia: Stephen Hawking
October 1962month
Iranmentioned
“After receiving a first-class BA degree in physics and completing a trip to Iran with a friend, he began his graduate work at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in October 1962.”
source: Wikipedia: Stephen Hawking
March 1966month
Cambridgementioned
“He also received a research fellowship at Gonville and Caius College at Cambridge; he obtained his PhD degree in applied mathematics and theoretical physics, specialising in general relativity and cosmology, in March 1966; and his essay…”
source: Wikipedia: Stephen Hawking
March 1966month
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridgementioned
“He also received a research fellowship at Gonville and Caius College at Cambridge; he obtained his PhD degree in applied mathematics and theoretical physics, specialising in general relativity and cosmology, in March 1966; and his essay…”
source: Wikipedia: Stephen Hawking
1974year
California Institute of Technologymentioned
“While some experimental teams have claimed detection of Hawking radiation from acoustic and optical analogues of black holes, the search for Hawking radiation from astrophysical ones continues in the twenty-first century.Hawking was appo…”
source: Wikipedia: Stephen Hawking
1975year
Cambridgementioned
“Hawking returned to Cambridge in 1975 to a more academically senior post, as reader in gravitational physics.”
source: Wikipedia: Stephen Hawking
1981year
Vatican Citymentioned
“In 1981, at a Vatican conference, he presented work suggesting that there might be no boundaryor beginning or endingto the universe.”
source: Wikipedia: Stephen Hawking
October 1981month
Cambridgementioned
“Following a conference in Moscow in October 1981, Hawking and Gary Gibbons organised a three-week Nuffield Workshop in the summer of 1982 on "The Very Early Universe" at Cambridge University, a workshop that focused mainly on inflation t…”
source: Wikipedia: Stephen Hawking
October 1981month
Moscowmentioned
“Following a conference in Moscow in October 1981, Hawking and Gary Gibbons organised a three-week Nuffield Workshop in the summer of 1982 on "The Very Early Universe" at Cambridge University, a workshop that focused mainly on inflation t…”
source: Wikipedia: Stephen Hawking
October 1981month
Cambridge Universitymentioned
“Following a conference in Moscow in October 1981, Hawking and Gary Gibbons organised a three-week Nuffield Workshop in the summer of 1982 on "The Very Early Universe" at Cambridge University, a workshop that focused mainly on inflation t…”
source: Wikipedia: Stephen Hawking
1994year
Cambridgementioned
“In 1994, at Cambridge's Newton Institute, Hawking and Penrose delivered a series of six lectures that were published in 1996 as "The Nature of Space and Time".”
source: Wikipedia: Stephen Hawking
1997 to 2004period
Dublinmentioned
“In a 2004 lecture in Dublin, he conceded his 1997 bet with Preskill, but described his own, somewhat controversial solution to the information paradox problem, involving the possibility that black holes have more than one topology.”
source: Wikipedia: Stephen Hawking
2006year
CERNmentioned
“Along with Thomas Hertog at CERN and Jim Hartle, from 2006 on, Hawking developed a theory of top-down cosmology, which says that the universe had not one unique initial state but many different ones, and therefore that it is inappropriat…”
source: Wikipedia: Stephen Hawking
July 2012month
August 2012month
20 July 2015exact date
20 July 2015exact date
2018year
June 2018month
June 2018month
15 June 2018exact date
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