British mathematician Stephen Hawking, famous for his work on black holes, was admitted at a hospital after he became severely ill
British mathematician Stephen Hawking, famous for his work on black holes, was admitted at a hospital after he became severely ill.
Professor Hawking, 67-year-old physicist working with the Cambridge University, is wheelchair bound as he has been suffering from motor neurone disease since his student days in the 1960s, Times Online reported. He is one of the world's longest surviving sufferers of this disease and speaks with the help of a voice synthesiser.
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Despite his illness Hawking has worked at Cambridge's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics for more than 30 years and since 1979, has been the University's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. "Professor Hawking is very ill," said a university spokesman, adding that the professor renowned for his books like 'A Brief History of Time' published in 1988, was rushed to Addenbrooke hospital in an ambulance.
In 2001 the sequel, 'The Universe in a Nutshell', to his earlier best seller 'A Brief History of Time' was published in which he explored the possibility of a universe with 11 dimensions. Professor Hawking who resides in Cambridge and has three children and one grandchild and was awarded a CBE in 1982, became a Companion of Honour in 1989 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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