The Illustrated Brief History of Time

StephenWilliamHawking,CH,CBE,FRS,FRSA(born8January1942)isaBritishtheoreticalphysicist.HawkingistheLucasianProfessorofMathematicsattheUniversityofCambridge(butintendstoretirefromthispostin2009),aFellowofGonvilleandCaiusCollege,CambridgeandthedistinguishedresearchchairatWaterloo'sPerimeterInstituteforTheoreticalPhysics.Heisknownforhiscontributionstothefieldsofcosmologyandquantumgravity,especiallyinthecontextofblackholes.