... available at the University College. Stephen then went on to Cambridge University to study Cosmology, the metaphysical study of the origin and nature of the universe. After gaining a PhD in this subject, he became a Research Fellow, and a Professorial Fellow at Gonville and Caius College. After deciding to opt out of a career in Astronomy, he came to the Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, and since 1979, he has held the position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. Since this day in 1979, Stephen Hawking has worked on the basic laws that control the universe that we live in. With help from fellow colleagues, he showed that the General Theory of Relativity implied space and time would have a beginning in the Big Bang and an end in black holes. These results showed that it was necessary to combine General Relativity with Quantum Theory, the other great scientific development ...

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