Stephen Hawking: Google Doodle Celebrates British Physicist’s 80th Birthday

Google celebrates Stephen Hawking’s 80th birthday with a video doodle on its homepage for Brazil and many other countries.

“Today’s video doodle celebrates Stephen Hawking, an English cosmologist, writer and theoretical physicist, one of the most influential scientific thinkers in history,” the search engine posted.

“From the collision of black holes to the Big Bang, his theories about the origin and dynamics of the universe revolutionized modern physics, while his best-selling books made the field widely accessible to millions of readers around the world.”

“A snack for an innovator who changed the way the world perceives the universe by astronomical impact!”

Stephen Hawking

Stephen William Hawking was born on the same day in 1942 in Oxford, England. From an early age he was fascinated by the workings of the universe and earned the nickname “Einstein”.

After being diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease at the age of 21, the loving support of composer Richard Wagner’s music and his fiance Jane Wilde inspired Hawking to pursue physics, mathematics and cosmology.

In 1965, at the University of Cambridge, Hawking supported his doctoral dissertation, “The Properties That Expand the Universe”, which put forward a revolutionary theory. Black holes.

That year, Hawking was accepted as a research partner at Cornville and Chaos College in Cambridge – his academic home for lifelong research.

Hawking’s obsession with black holes discovered in 1974 that particles could escape from black holes. This theory, known as Hawking radiation, is widely regarded as his most important contribution to physics.

In 1979, Hawking’s pioneering work on black holes led Cambridge to appoint him professor of Lucasian mathematics, a position held by Isaac Newton in 1669.

Hawking’s doctoral dissertation was published to the public on the Cambridge University website in 2017, which failed due to major traffic congestion.