Who is Stephen Hawking from The Universe in a Nutshell and what is their importance? The_Universe_in_a_Nutshell English & Literature Stephen Hawking | The Universe in a Nutshell

Of the important physicists in history, Stephen Hawking is among the most important alive. For thirty years Hawking taught mathematics and physics at Cambridge, holding the prestigious Lucasian Chair of Mathematics, which he shares with Isaac Newton. Hawking also has ALS, or a type of Lou Gehrig's disease, that progresses particularly slowly and has allowed him to live for decades despite being largely immobile and unable to speak.