Stephen Hawking was born in 1942.He's a world famous scientist and expert on space and time.Stephen is trying to find the answers to some very big questions such as: How did the universe (宇宙) begin? How will it end?
When Stephen was a student at University, he studied math and science.Then, at the age of twenty, he became very ill.He was so young, but the doctors said to his family, "He has only two more years to live." The doctor were wrong——he didn't die."He can't walk now but he uses a wheelchair (轮椅).(4)He talks with the help of a computer." After Oxford, Stephen went to Cambridge University.Three years later, in 1965, he became a doctor of philosophy(哲学).
Because of his health problems, it was difficult for him to draw diagrams or to write.So he started to think in pictures.With this new way of thinking, (5)he became one of the most famous scientists in the world.In 1981, he met the Pop (教皇) in Rome.They talked about his ideas.Then in 1988, he wrote his first important book, A Brief History of Time