His attempts to identify a grand unification theory that unites everything we know about the physical world and science far exceeds any realm of thinking that has ever graced this earth. ... (Evans, p.127) Stephen Hawking wanted to study mathematics and physics in a university, but his father believed that there would not be any jobs in mathematics and thus Hawking took physics and chemistry, and only a bit of math. ...

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When he enrolled in Oxford University he intended on getting a degree in chemistry, but this was not an available field so he studied natural science instead. ... If we are able to identify with imaginary time, then we should also be able to understand that the universe existed in emptiness before its physical existence, as we know it today, began. ... Other awards earned by Hawking include the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, the Heinemann Prize of the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society, the Maxwell Medal and Prize, the Einstein Medal, the Paul D...

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