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

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

LOS ANGELES — Stephen Hawking toured a stem cell laboratory Tuesday where scientists are studying ways to slow the progression of Lou Gehrig's disease, a neurological disorder that has left the ...

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 ...