Stephen Hawking dead - English physicist who wrote A Brief History of Time passed away ...
(World News UK)

Professor Stephen Hawking has died aged 76 - his family has confirmed. The English physicist who wrote A Brief History of Time was the subject of Oscar-winning film The Theory of Everything in 2014. Rex Features He was considered a medical marvel, having lived for more than half a century with the devastating condition motor neurone disease. Stephen was born on January 8 1942 in Oxford - where his parents had decamped from north London for him to be born away from the worst of the wartime bombing raids. When he was 8, the family moved to St Albans, attending school before going on to Oxford University. While studying at Oxford, the young Stephen became increasingly clumsy, falling down the...