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Google on Saturday, 8 January, is celebrating 80th birth anniversary of English cosmologist, author, and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. The American tech giant uploaded a video Doodle of Stephen Hawking on its search page to mark his birthday. It is illustrated by Doodler Matthew Cruickshank
On 08 January 1942, Stephen William Hawking was born in Oxford, England. His interest towards functioning of universe from young age earned him the nickname 'Einstein'.
However, at a young age of 21, he was diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease. "The music of composer Richard Wagner and the loving support of his future wife Jane Wilde motivated Hawking to dedicate himself to physics, math, and cosmology," reads the official blog by Google.
Moreover, in 1974, he went on to discover that particles could escape black holes, which is widely considered his most important contribution to physics.
Cambridge University, in 1979, appointed Hawking as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a position held by Isaac Newton in 1669. They also released his doctoral thesis to public on its website in the year 2017.
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