Stephen Hawking died on March 14 at the age of 76. But the physicist lived for 55 years before that with debilitating, nerve-killing ALS.

For most people, the name Stephen Hawking calls to mind the brilliant, wheel chair-bound physicist and his renowned theories about space-time and black holes. "The Theory of Everything" tells the ...

And, why shouldn't I? Eddie Redmayne, who portrayed Hawking in the film, won an Academy Award for his performance, and the ...

A diagnosis of Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), is usually a death sentence, and it's one filled with pain and suffering, sometimes for years, before the victim ...

Professor Stephen Hawking died peacefully at his home in Cambridge early Wednesday morning at the age of 76. 24/7 Live Chicago & Suburban Cook Co. North Suburbs West Suburbs South Suburbs NW ...

Stephen Hawking, the legendary physicist, cosmologist and world-famous author, died on Wednesday at the age of 76. Here's our 1988 cover story on Hawking, published around the time his best ...

Hawking suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, which is usually fatal within a few years.He was diagnosed in 1963 ...

MIAMI (CNN) -- Stephen Hawking, the brilliant British theoretical physicist who overcame a debilitating disease to publish wildly popular books probing the mysteries of the universe, has died ...

"There is no God," Stephen Hawking wrote in his final book, which was posthumously released this week, CNN reported.. The world-renowned physicist mentioned his diagnosis of Lou Gehrig's disease ...

Eleven years before his bestselling book "A Brief History of Time" hit the bookstores in 1988, Hawking appeared in a BBC television special called "The Key to the Universe: The Search for the Laws ...

Before Monday's announcement, Hawking's doctoral work — officially, Ph.D. 5437 — has resided on a shelf at Cambridge, its more than 100 pages bound in a sea-green cover.

For most people, the name Stephen Hawking calls to mind the brilliant, wheel chair-bound physicist and his renowned theories about space-time and black holes. But a new film depicts a different ...