Against All Odds
This article is an excerpt from the biography of Stephen Hawking, a great physicist. His name inspires awe and admiration not only because he is a great scientist, but also because he has won his international renown against extremely heavy odds. Hawking has suffered from a rare and incurable disease that has paralyzed him for good ever since he was 21. But known as “the Scientist in the Wheelchair”, he not only finished his studies at Cambridge University, but has also plished a great deal in the field of theoretical physics.
Stephen William Hawking
was born on 8 January 1942
(300 years after the death of
Galileo) in Oxford, England.
Stephen Hawking has worked on the basic laws which govern the universe. With Roger Penrose he showed that Einstein's General Theory of Relativity implied space and time would have a beginning in the Big Bang and an end in black holes. Black holes should not pletely black, but should emit radiation and eventually evaporate and disappear. The universe has no edge or boundary in imaginary time.
Stephen Hawking is no ordinary scientist. Across a career that began over thirty years ago at Cambridge University, he has managed to do more than perhaps any other physicist to broaden our basic understanding of the universe. This skilful portrait of an indefatigable genius traces the course of Hawking's life and science, marrying biography and physics to tell the story of a remarkable man.
Two Themes of the Text
Everyone has to struggle against some odds. We are not exception. pared with the kind of odds Hawking has had to fight against, our difficulties and hardships must seem trivial. I believe that we can all draw strength from such a fine example. Hawking teaches us that even though a person is physically disabled, the mind has no limits.
The text seems to have a second theme --- the power of love. Like many other people, Hawking also experienced a period of utter depression and despair. It was Jane who helped
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