The Incredibly Complex Life Of Stephen Hawking

Returning to School

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Upon returning to Cambridge, Hawking gained a reputation for being unbelievably intelligent as well as a bit bold. On one particular occasion, he publicly challenged the work of Fred Hoyle and another student, Jayant Narlikar, in a lecture during June 1964. In 1965, he wrote his thesis titled “Properties of Expanding Universes” which was approved in 1966.

At that time, Hawking received a research fellowship at Gonville & Caius College at Cambridge and finally achieved his Ph.D. in applied mathematics and theoretical physics, specializing in general relativity and cosmology in March 1966. In 1966, he also won that year’s prestigious Adams Prize for his collaborative essay with Roger Penrose, “Singularities and the Geometry of Space-Time”.

Stephen ended up marrying his college sweetheart.