Transcript Stephen Hawking’s physics tutor, Robert Berman, later said in the New York Times Magazine: “It was only necessary for him to know.

Stephen Hawking’s physics tutor, Robert Berman,
later said in the New York Times Magazine:
“It was only necessary for him to know that
something could be done, and he could do it
without looking to see how other people did it. ...
He didn’t have very many books, and he didn’t
take notes. Of course, his mind was completely
different from all of his contemporaries.”
Hawking’s unimpressive study habits gave him a
final examination score on the borderline between
first and second class honours, making an "oral
examination" necessary.
Berman said of the oral examination:
“And of course the examiners then were intelligent
enough to realize they were talking to someone
far more clever than most of themselves.”
Hawking describes himself as “lucky" despite
his disease. Its slow progression has allowed
him time to make influential discoveries and
it has not hindered him from having, in his
own words, "a very attractive family". When
Jane was asked why she decided to marry a
man with a 3-year life expectancy, she
responded: “Those were the days of atomic
gloom and doom, so we all had a rather
short life expectancy."
Jane Hawking, Hawking’s first wife, with
whom he had three children, cared for him
until 1991 when the couple separated,
reportedly due to the pressures of fame and
his increasing disability.
Hawking married his nurse, Elaine Mason
(who was also the previous wife of David
Mason, designer of the first version of
Hawking’s talking computer), in 1995. In
October 2006, Hawking filed for divorce
from his second wife.
University College (in full, the The Master
and Fellows of the College of the Great
Hall of the University of Oxford), is one of
the constituent colleges of the University of
Oxford. It is a contender for being the oldest
of the colleges of the university, and is
amongst the largest in terms of population.
A degree may be awarded with or without honours,
with the class of an honours degree based on the
average mark of the assessed work a candidate has
completed. Below is a list of the possible
classifications with common abbreviations.
• First-Class Honours (First or 1st)
• Upper Second-Class Honours (2:1)
• Lower Second-Class Honours (2:2)
• Third-Class Honours (Third or 3rd)
• Ordinary degree (Pass)
• Fail (no degree is awarded)
Until the 1970s, Oxford awarded Fourth-class
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The Big Bang is the cosmological model of
the universe that is best supported by all
lines of scientific evidence and observation.
As used by scientists, the term Big Bang
generally refers to the idea that the universe
has expanded from a primordial hot and
dense initial condition at some finite time in
the past, and continues to expand to this day.
A black hole is a theoretical region of space in
which the gravitational field is so powerful
that nothing, not even electromagnetic
radiation (e.g. visible light), can escape its
pull after having fallen past its event horizon.
The term derives from the fact that the
absorption of visible light renders the hole's
interior invisible, and indistinguishable from
the black space around it.
Despite its interior being invisible, a black hole may
reveal its presence through an interaction with
matter that lies in orbit outside its event horizon.
For example, a black hole may be perceived by
tracking the movement of a group of stars that
orbit its center. Alternatively, one may observe gas
(from a nearby star, for instance) that has been
drawn into the black hole. The gas spirals inward,
heating up to very high temperatures and emitting
large amounts of radiation that can be detected
from earthbound and earth-orbiting telescopes.
Such observations have resulted in the general
scientific consensus that—barring a breakdown in
our understanding of nature—black holes do exist
in our universe.