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Stephen william hawking ch cbe frs frsa 8 january 1942 14 march 2018 was an english theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the centre for theoretical cosmology at the university of cambridge at the time of his death. Abstract some implications and consequences of the expansion of the universe are examined. Stephen hawkings 1966 thesis crashes cambridge university. A longtime friend and colleague of stephen hawking and carl sagan, he was the feynman professor of theoretical physics at the california institute of technology caltech until 2009 and is one of the worlds leading experts on the. Like all phd theses, hawkings work has technically been available ever since it was accepted by. In his phd thesis, hawking argued that, if a sufficiently massive star can collapse to form a singularity, then so could such an entity explode outward. They began with the singularity theorems in the 1960s followed by his discovery that b. The 119page document was submitted by hawking, then a 24yearold graduate student at trinity hall college, part of the university of cambridge. With hawkings approval, the university granted access to.
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