Scientist Stephen Hawking is known for his groundbreaking work with black holes and relativity, and is the author of several popular science books including ‘A Brief History of Time.’ He has died peacefully at the age of 76 at his home in Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday (March 14, 2018). Below are some of the fascinating vintage portraits of a young Stephen Hawking through the years.
“We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today,” Lucy, Robert, and Tim Hawking, the children of the physicist, said in a statement announcing his death. “He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years.”
Childhood
He was born Jan. 8, 1942 to Frank and Isobel Hawking
As a young child (left), with his sister Mary (right)
With his two sisters, Philippa and Mary
With William Graves (right) in Cannelun, Robert Graves’ house in Deià, in 1951
Fishing on a boat
Aged 12 in the garden of his St Alban’s home
He plows a field as a boy
In his garden in St Albans aged 12 with his bicycle (Rex)
On horseback
Young Stephen Hawking Education
At Oxford in 1963
He attended the University of Oxford, where he studied physics and chemistry
Young Stephen Hawking (holding the handkerchief) with Oxford Boat Club, the early 1960s
He coxing the University College Men’s 2nd VIII in 1964
Graduation party
At his Oxford graduation in 1962
Young Stephen Hawking Marriage
Married Jane Wilde when he was 23-year-old Hawking
Hawking in the sixties with his first wife Jane
After gaining his Ph.D. from Cambridge, Hawking became first a research fellow and later a professorial fellow at Gonville and Caius College
