Stephen Hawking celebrated on new British coin
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Timeline of Stephen Hawking's life
Jan 8, 1942 — Born in Oxford, England, the eldest of four children born to Frank Hawking, a biologist, and Isobel Hawking, a medical research secretary.
1952 — Attends St. Albans School.
1959 — Receives scholarship to attend University College, Oxford, from which he graduates with a degree in Natural Science.
1962 — Begins graduate research in cosmology at Cambridge University.
1963 — Diagnosed with the degenerative nerve disorder ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, at the age of 21. He is given two years to live.
July, 14, 1965 — Marries his first wife, Jane Wilde, a modern languages student he met at Cambridge.
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