Stephen Hawking - A memory on Pi Day

#OTD Remembering one of the greatest scientific thinkers of all time. Legends like Stephen William Hawking come only once in a century. Born in Oxford in 1942, exactly 300 years after Galileo's demise, Hawking went on to pursue his graduate studies at Cambridge. When only twenty he was, he became diagnosed with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) or more commonly known in the UK as Motor Neurone Disease. Hawking worked primarily in the field of general relativity and particularly on the physics of black holes. His ideas about our universe were inspired. He held Newton's chair as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. He also received an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Cambridge University and was included as a Companion of Honour. 

The brilliant mind of Stephen Hawking left us on 14.03.2018 (also known as Pi Day). He has forever only tried to link the two biggest theories of physics: general relativity and quantum mechanics, which he would call by 'the quantum theory of gravity.' His search for this never ended, and even after his death his followers are in search of this theory which will answer the biggest questions of physics and reasoning. 

He tried to explain the working of the universe in the simplest of physics terms in his widely celebrated book A Brief History of Time. He is also the author of other books like The Grand Design where he talks in more depth about the science behind the cosmos. It is truly unbelievable that this man of spectacular talent and promicing contributions didn't own a Nobel Prize in Physics, or Mathematics. Perhaps, it is because his ideas remained void of a solid experimental proof, or were experimentally impossible. 

One of his most famous quotes is:  "Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."