Stephen Hawking attends the EE British Academy Film Awards at The Royal Opera House, Feb. 8, 2015 in London. The celebrated English physicist had attained almost a cult-like status in recent years.

Professor Stephen Hawking during a press conference in London, Dec. 2, 2014. Professor Hawking and Intel discussed the latest developments on how technology enhancements are going to have a wider ...

Stephen Hawking, the British theoretical physicist who beat the odds his entire life, has died. He was 76. The University of Cambridge, where Hawking was director of research in applied ...

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 21, 1999 file photo Professor Stephen Hawking smiles during a news conference at the University of Potsdam, near Berlin, Germany.

Randall, a Time 100 honoree, is Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University and the author of Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe ...

5. Stephen Hawking Theorized How Black Holes Emit Information Black holes are notoriously hungry phenomena, distorting spacetime and sucking in any matter that passes within their event horizon.

Stephen Hawking was one of the world’s greatest minds, and his thoughts on whether or not there is a God are worth reading.

Stephen Hawking/Facebook screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET If only worries could be prioritized. If only our minds and souls could decide that one was bigger than another and treat it that way.

Stephen Hawking's wit and humor broke down his complicated theories on space-time and resonated through popular culture as he appeared in films, books, music and "The Simpsons." ...

Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) when he was 21. Doctors didn't expect him to live very long, but he ended up making it to the age of 76.

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking definitively answered one of humankind's grandest questions — What was around before the Big Bang? "Nothing was around," Hawking told astrophysicist Neil deGrasse ...

Stephen Hawking, the brilliant physicist and author who died Wednesday at 76, was undeniably our age’s most well-known scientist. But he was also a great paradox.