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Mar 14, 2018 · Stephen Hawking died of ALS after battling the disease for 55 years. Here's what to know about ALS and Hawking's case.
Hawking had a rare early-onset, slow-progressing form of motor neurone disease (MND; also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig's disease), a fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects the motor neurones in the brain and spinal cord, which gradually paralysed him over decades.
Jan 7, 2012 · Stephen Hawking turns 70 on Sunday, beating the odds of a daunting diagnosis by nearly half a century. The famous theoretical physicist has helped to bring his ideas about black holes and...
Mar 14, 2018 · Hawking had a form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Early-onset and slow-progressing, he was diagnosed at age 21 during his studies at the University...
Stephen Hawking, who died Wednesday at the age of 76, had lived with the crippling disease ALS for 55 years. How did he do it? Probably in no small part because he was rich, famous and...
Mar 14, 2018 · When Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor-neuron disease at the age of 21, it wasn’t clear that he would finish his PhD. Against all expectations, he lived on for 55 years, becoming one of ...
Mar 14, 2018 · When Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 1963, few thought he would live more than a couple of years.
Mar 14, 2018 · In 1963, at the age of 21 he was diagnosed with a rare form of early-onset motor neurone disease or ALS, and doctors gave him the grim prognosis of just a few more years of life. Instead, Hawking lived another 55 years, making stellar contributions to science for more than half a century.
Mar 14, 2018 · Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest physicists of our time, didn’t let a rare motor neuron illness that bound him to a wheelchair stop him from roaming everywhere else.
Mar 14, 2018 · Stephen Hawking, the brilliant British theoretical physicist who overcame a debilitating disease to publish wildly popular books probing the mysteries of the universe, has died.
