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Stephen William Hawking STEPHEN HAWKING (JANUARY 8, 1942 TO MARCH 14, 2018) Stephen Hawking was a British scientist, professor and author who performed groundbreaking work in physics and cosmology, and whose books helped to make science accessible to everyone. At age 21, while studying cosmology at the University of Cambridge, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Part of his life story was depicted in the 2014 film The Theory of Everything. At the age of 21, Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease). In a very simple sense, the nerves that controlled his muscles were shutting down. At the time, doctors gave him two and a half years to live. Hawking first began to notice problems with his physical health while he was at Oxford—on occasion he would trip and fall, or slur his speech—he didn't look into the problem until 1963, during his first year at Cambridge.  For the most pa...

Istifanus Sarki is a business strategist, content writer, and community manager with half a decade of experience as a writer and digital marketer. He worked briefly with Roceans Digital Media, Simeons Pivot Resources, and Careerxpress. He is currently a content writer and community manager at Noah's Ark Communications.  Over the period of 5years, he has managed online platforms of notable brands including Colgate Nigeria, Lagos Advertising and Ideas Festival (LAIF), CareerXpress, Manicleworld, among others. He has worked on projects for some of Nigeria's top companies including Ultimus, Moove, Nokia, and Peak An alumnus of the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University, Istifanus is unrepentantly and irreversibly a singer and a spoken word artiste.