OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES LONDON 2012: by Lucia Fuentes

His name is Stephen William Hawking
He was born on January 8, 1942, is 70 years old. It is a physicist and cosmologist British science writer.
He is a member of the Royal Society of London, of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.
Chairholder was Lucasina of Mathematics, University of Cambridge until his retirement in 2009. Among the numerous awards that have been granted, Hawking has been honored with twelve doctors and has been awarded the OBE in 1982.
Hawking suffers from a disease related motoneuronal amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ELA) that their status was worse over the years, until he was completely paralyzed, and has forced him to communicate THROUGH voice generating apparatus.

He has been married twice and has three children.
For his part, has achieved sales success with its informative work on science, in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general.