English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, widely viewed as one of the most prestigious academic posts in the world.
Age 21 Hawking was diagnosed with an early-onset slow-progressing form of motor neurone disease that gradually, over decades, paralysed him, but did not stop his achievements.
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Stephen Hawking
London 2012 Paralympics In the late afternoon of 29th August 2012 Havengore h...
Thomas Henry Huxley. Biologist and anthropologist. Born Ealing. An early adherent to Darwin's theory of evolution, he was a strong supporter while also pointing out what he saw as flaws. At the R...
Physicist. Born in Ulm. He was proficient in maths and physics from an early age. By the time he was in his twenties he was publishing papers and was recognised as a leading scientist. In 1905, he ...
The NPL's history page concentrates on their work (e.g. they weighed Concorde, no mean feat) rather than their buildings. NPL began its life housed in the former royal residence, Bushy House, in B...
Born Ashton under Lyme, Lancashire. Maker of watches and chronometers. Lived and worked mainly in London and Greenwich. He seems to have been a bitter man with whom it was unpleasant to do business...
American chemist, inventor and industrialist. Born Pennsylvania. Initially worked with Edison. Companies he founded include: Carborundum, Inc., UCar International, and Acheson Industries. In abou...
Sculptor. From minutes of the Trustees committee: "Martin was the visionary, designer, sculptor, diplomat, executor and custodian of the Flame. He, alone in Methodism, was able to carry this off w...
Churchwarden, 1855. Caroline's Miscellany has a post about Wagstaff. Watch out for his Facebook page - coming soon.
First Lieutenant Robert Alfred Boock was born on 15 May 1920 in St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minnesota, USA, the eldest of the four children of Alfred Christian Boock (1899-1988) and Helen Madeline B...
Author and pioneer of science fiction. Born near Birmingham as Jane Webb. Wrote "The Mummy!: Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century" and published it in 1827, anonymously. This was reviewed favour...
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