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.

The renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, who was diagnosed with motor neurons disease at age 21, died on March 14, 2018. Here, his life in photos.

Stephen Hawking was diagnosed in 1963 while still a university student. Early-onset ALS is very rare, Talbot said, occurring in less than two percent of cases. Hawking battled the disease for more ...

Doctors diagnosed Gherig on his 36th birthday, and he passed away just before his 38th. Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease) in 1963. However, ...

Stephen Hawking's lifetime of accomplishments that gained him worldwide fame and cultural icon status had to be achieved in the face of a disease he lived with most of his life — 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. But a new film depicts a different ...

When Hawking was diagnosed with the disease in 1963 at the age of 21, he was given two years to live. But against all odds, he managed to live into his 76 th year of life. The reasons behind this ...

Not long after Hawking signed the book, his body became immobilized by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a degenerative nerve condition that's also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. [Stephen ...

Stephen Hawking, a brilliant theoretical physicist whose ability to overcome a debilitating disease was as big a mystery as some of the enigmas of the cosmos, died Wednesday at age 76.

Long before Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak signed a letter warning that artificial intelligence poses "profound risks" to humanity, British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking had ...

Based on Jane Hawking's memoir "Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen" (Alma Books, 2008), the film weaves together the story of Stephen and Jane's marriage, with that of his illness and ...