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** About Me: (Completion Date: Tuesday January 12) **[[image:hawking-1.jpg width="293" height="310" align="right"]]
> diagnosed with ALS, a form of Motor Neurone Disease, shortly after his 21st birthday >
 * ~Who are you ** [[image:formanphysics/hawking.jpg width="205" height="278" align="right"]]
 * Name-Stephen Hawking
 * Birth year-January 8, 1942
 * Father and Mothers Occupation-father went University College, Oxford
 * Family-mother, father, three children and three grandchildren
 * ~Where are you from  **
 * Country of birth-Oxford, England
 * Living conditions-
 * wheelchair
 * computerised voice system for communication
 * Political conditions
 * ~What is the world like, when you live **
 * Wars [[image:University-of-Cambridge-Logo-CMYK-250-copy.jpg width="769" height="122" align="right"]]
 * World Economy
 * World of Science
 * ~Interesting facts about me **
 * Education-
 * age 11- went to St Albans School the on to University College, Oxford
 * went on to Cambridge to do research in Cosmology
 * What was your area of work or research?-wanted at first to study mathematics but that wasn't an option at that school so pursued in Physics
 * Who were your colleagues?
 * supervisor was Denis Sciama at Cambridge (he had wished for Fred Hoyle)
 * What awards did you receive?-
 * first class honors degree in Natural Science
 * first class honors degree in Natural Science


 * What colleagues do you work well with?
 * Are you working together on an area of Physics?
 * Explain your relationship
 * What Physicists are you in conflict with? What is the conflict?


 * Daily Blog: (Begins Friday January 13) **
 * ~One FULL week of blogs (Friday - Thursday)
 * ~Minimum 2-3 sentences
 * ~A creative way to explain how you interact with other Physicists:


 * GENERAL FEATURES:  **
 * ~Works Cited - http://www.hawking.org.uk/about-stephen.html
 * ~Pictures & video
 * ~Creativity is STRONGLY encouraged