23 moments

1. Birth in Oxford

   1942-01-08 · Oxford, England, United Kingdom

   

   Hawking was born in Oxford during the Second World War, beginning a life that would later be closely associated with Cambridge and international theoretical physics. Settlement coordinate; the cited text does not identify the birth building.

2. Family move to St Albans

   1950-01-01 · St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom

   As a child, Hawking moved with his family to St Albans after his father took a post at the National Institute for Medical Research. Settlement coordinate.

3. Begins at St Albans School

   1952-09-01 · St Albans School, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom

   Hawking began attending St Albans School, where his interest in scientific subjects developed during his adolescence.

4. Undergraduate study at University College

   1959-10-01 · University College, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

   At seventeen, Hawking began reading natural sciences at University College, Oxford, ultimately graduating with first-class honours in physics.

5. Journey through Iran

   1962-01-01 · Tehran, Iran

   Following his Oxford degree, Hawking travelled in Iran with a fellow student; the journey included Tehran and occurred shortly before he began graduate work at Cambridge. The source dates the Iran trip to 1962; Tehran is one documented point on a wider Iranian route.

6. Marriage in St Albans

   1965-07-14 · St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom

   Hawking married Jane Wilde in their shared hometown, shortly after beginning his Cambridge research career. Settlement coordinate; the ceremony venue is not specified.

7. PhD and fellowship at Gonville and Caius

   1966-03-01 · Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

   

   Hawking completed his Cambridge doctorate in applied mathematics and theoretical physics and received a research fellowship at Gonville and Caius College.

8. Year at Caltech

   1974-01-01 · California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States

   Hawking and his family spent a year in Pasadena during his Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Visiting Professorship at the California Institute of Technology.

9. Return to Cambridge as reader

   1975-01-01 · Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

   

   After the Caltech appointment, Hawking returned to Cambridge to take up a senior academic role as reader in gravitational physics. Settlement coordinate; the source does not specify a single building.

10. No-boundary presentation at Vatican conference

    1981-01-01 · Vatican City

    

    Hawking presented early work on the no-boundary idea at a Vatican conference, an important step toward the Hartle-Hawking proposal. Conference venue is represented by Vatican City.

11. Medical emergency during CERN trip

    1985-01-01 · CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland

    

    During a trip to CERN in Switzerland, Hawking contracted pneumonia, leading to the medical crisis that resulted in a tracheostomy and permanent loss of natural speech. CERN coordinate represents its principal Meyrin site near Geneva.

12. Newton Institute lecture series

    1994-01-01 · Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

    

    Hawking and Roger Penrose delivered six Cambridge lectures later published as The Nature of Space and Time.

13. Visit to Antarctica

    1997-01-01 · Antarctica

    Hawking visited Antarctica, one of the notable journeys undertaken amid his international scientific and public life. The source provides no Antarctic landing site; coordinate is a representative continental point and is not the South Pole.

14. Strings 2001 conference

    2001-01-01 · Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

    

    Hawking attended the Strings 2001 conference at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research alongside David Gross and Edward Witten. The source supports the year but not a single day.

15. Information-paradox lecture in Dublin

    2004-01-01 · Dublin, Ireland

    Hawking publicly conceded his 1997 information-paradox wager with John Preskill during a lecture in Dublin, while advancing a proposed resolution. Settlement coordinate; the cited text does not name the lecture venue.

16. Zero-gravity flight off Florida

    2007-04-26 · Off the coast of Florida, United States

    

    Hawking experienced weightlessness on a specially modified Zero-G aircraft, demonstrating that his disability did not prevent participation in parabolic flight. Representative offshore coordinate; the source does not give the aircraft's exact position or route.

17. NASA fiftieth-anniversary lecture

    2008-04-21 · Morton Auditorium, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States

    

    Hawking delivered “Why we should go into space” as part of NASA's fiftieth-anniversary lecture series.

18. Presidential Medal of Freedom

    2009-08-12 · White House, Washington, D.C., United States

    

    President Barack Obama awarded Hawking the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House, recognizing his scientific achievement and public influence. The accompanying official page identifies this as Hawking's visit to the White House.

19. London Paralympics opening ceremony

    2012-08-29 · Olympic Stadium, London, England, United Kingdom

    Hawking appeared at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympic Games and introduced the proceedings at the Olympic Stadium.

20. Lecture at Stockholm Waterfront

    2015-01-01 · Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, Stockholm, Sweden

    

    Hawking lectured at Stockholm Waterfront during a late-career period in which he continued to present new ideas in black-hole physics. Caption source supports the year but not a more precise date.

21. Launch of Breakthrough Initiatives

    2015-07-20 · Kohn Centre, Royal Society, London, England, United Kingdom

    Hawking joined scientists and philanthropist Yuri Milner at the Royal Society to launch Breakthrough Listen and Breakthrough Message.

22. Morris Loeb Lecture at Harvard

    2016-04-18 · Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Hawking delivered the 2016 Morris Loeb Lecture in Physics at Harvard, helping inaugurate the university's Black Hole Initiative.

23. Death at home in Cambridge

    2018-03-14 · Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

    Hawking died peacefully at his Cambridge home at age seventy-six, ending a career centered at the University of Cambridge and extending across global science. Settlement coordinate; the source does not provide the home address.