Why Stephen Hawking so famous

Stephen Hawking published many books of science in which he discussed his own theories and cosmology including the bestseller “A Brief History of Time”. Since Albert Einstein he has become to be thought of as one of the greatest scientist in physics. 

Stephen Hawking is the man who made astrophysics understandable.

 

A Brief History of Time, his most famous book, explained the origins of the universe in terms a non scientist could understand very easily. Professor Stephen Hawking was one of the most brilliant scientists of his or any other generation.

But it was his ability to explain the most complex ideas in terms that anyone could understand that brought fame for him far beyond the scientific community.

A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, became a huge hit, selling 10 million copies and being translated into 35 languages.

Aimed at a non-scientific audience it attempted to explain some fundamental principles of physics and answer some of the oldest questions of mankind; how, why and where the universe began, how it works and where it will end.

His popularity brought him guest appearances in TV shows such as The Simpsons and the Big Bang Theory, but he was above all a true scientific genius.

Building on the work of scientists such as Einstein he defined and refined our understanding of the Big Bang, gravity black holes, entropy, general relativity and quantum theory.

In a simple, elegant style it covered the nature of time, gravity, black holes, the Big Bang and the physicist's Holy Grail - 'the theory of everything' an all-encompassing, coherent theoretical framework of physics that fully explains and links together all physical aspects of the universe.

The Theory of Everything became the title of the 2014 film that charted Professor Hawking's early life and how he came to terms with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), the crippling disease that gradually paralyzed him.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND), and Lou Gehrig's disease, is a specific disease which causes the death of neurons controlling voluntary muscles. Some also use the term motor neuron disease for a group of conditions of which ALS is the most common.

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