So...if you like science, this is totally the post for you! Stephen Hawking is crazy important because he made understanding black holes and space easy for people who aren't scientists to understand! Here's what Britannica Kids says about him:
Stephen Hawking was an English scientist. He was a cosmologist, or someone who studies the universe as a whole. He is known for his work on black holes. Hawking also wrote a number of best-selling books, including A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988). Stephen William Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford, England. As a cosmologist, Hawking studied the basic laws that govern the universe. One of his theories was that mini black holes were formed following the big bang. These mini black holes contain one billion tons of mass but occupy less than the space of an atom. Hawking’s work inspired others to investigate the properties of black holes. Hawking became a professor at Cambridge in 1977. Two years later he was appointed Lucasian professor of mathematics, a post once held by Isaac Newton. When Hawking was 21, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—a disease that weakens muscles and causes paralysis. Despite his diagnosis, he continued to work. He earned a doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1966. So what now? How about checking out a book on space! We have a HUGE space section
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