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Stephen Hawking

Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q17712&amp;oldid=2556332901" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Albert Einstein Medal · dated 1979
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q471726&amp;oldid=2548915297" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">A Brief History of Time
Employer: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q863940&amp;oldid=2539099028" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gonville and Caius College · from 1965 · to 1969
Sports team: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q7894615&amp;oldid=2425204802" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">University College Boat Club
Public office: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q865664&amp;oldid=2516745994" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lucasian Professor of Mathematics · from 1979 · to 2009
Education: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q81087&amp;oldid=2537088262" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">University College, Oxford · from 1959-10 · to 1962

Wikidata describes Stephen Hawking as British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018).

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