A nurse who cared for Professor Stephen Hawking claimed last night that she saw his wife abusing and mistreating him. Elaine Hawking called her disabled 62-year-old husband a cripple, bathed him ...

In Stephen Hawking: A Biography by Kristine Larsen ... the option of removing him from life support was considered, which his then-wife, Jane, objected to. He underwent a tracheotomy instead ...

Stephen Hawking was the most recognisable scientist of modern times. His life fascinated people for decades, culminating in an Oscar-winning portrayal of him in the film 'The Theory of Everything'.

Stephen Hawking was born on the ... to other physicists but to the general public. Hawking grew up outside London in an intellectual family. His father was a physician and specialist in tropical ...

Written for a non-specialist audience, Hawking’s A Brief History of Time is the very definition of a smash-hit science book. It may be a joke (repeated by Hawking himself in h2g2) that it’s ...