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Stephen Hawking Accomplishments In Science
Stephen Hawking was your perfectly healthy until one day, that changed his life completely. When in college his life changed completely as he began to develop signs of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Instead of letting this take full control of his life and give up he turned his disability into something positive. Stephen became a great influence in the science industry. He has had many accomplishments even though he develops the ALS disease. He was instead able to turn his disability into something positive and help him accomplish all of his scientific goals that he wanted to achieve. This helps us see how we can’t let any obstacle that is presented stop us from doing anything in life because everything is possible as long as you don’t give …show more content…
One of Hawking accomplishments in science is that he “came up with the second law, which states that the total surface area of a black hole will never get smaller, at least so far as classical physics is concerned” (Sample), many of hawking's works involved many different theories about black holes.another of hawkings many accomplishments is “ Hawking was one of the first to show how quantum fluctuations – minuscule variations in the distribution of matter – during inflation might give rise to the spread of galaxies in the universe” (Sample). Also Hawkings was able to write many books “After A Brief History of Time, several other works by Hawking were published which went on to be quite popular including Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (1993), The Universe in a Nutshell (2001), On The Shoulders of Giants (2002), and God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History (2005)” (Anirudh).Along with many accomplishments, he received many awards” he was given the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), the highest award given by the RAS”(Anirudh). Hawking’s was able to accomplish many amazing things in the science industry even though he had ALS. Which come to show what a great influence he is on everyone and how he is able to be an inspiration for everyone by showing us that just because he had to live with ALS that did not stop him from accomplishing what he did instead he was able to become a great influence in the science

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