Stephen Hawking
English theoretical physicist
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| February 2022 | The 'Stephen Hawking at Work' display opened at the Science Museum in London, beginning a two-year nationwide tour. |
| January 8 2022 | Google featured Hawking in a Google Doodle on the occasion of his 80th birthday. |
| May 2021 | An Acceptance-in-Lieu agreement was reached to keep around 10,000 pages of Hawking's scientific papers in Cambridge and house his personal items at the Science Museum. |
| March 2019 | Royal Mint announced a commemorative 50p coin in honor of Hawking. |
| November 8 2018 | Auction of 22 personal possessions, including his doctoral thesis and wheelchair, raised approximately £1.8 million for charities and his estate. |
| October 2018 | Hawking's last book 'Brief Answers to the Big Questions' was published posthumously. |
| October 2018 | Final research study 'Black Hole Entropy and Soft Hair' was published, exploring information loss in black holes. |
| June 2018 | Hawking's words, set to music by Vangelis, were announced to be beamed into space towards the nearest black hole. |
| June 15 2018 | Service of thanksgiving held at Westminster Abbey, where Hawking's ashes were interred between the graves of Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. |
| May 2018 | Final research study 'A smooth exit from eternal inflation?' about the origin of the universe was published in the Journal of High Energy Physics. |
| April 2018 | Posthumous final words appeared in the Smithsonian TV Channel documentary 'Leaving Earth: Or How to Colonize a Planet'. |
| April 27 2018 | Posthumously published his final scientific paper, 'A smooth exit from eternal inflation?', in the Journal of High Energy Physics. |
| March 2018 | Just weeks before his death, Hawking was the voice of The Book Mark II on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series and a guest on Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk. |
| March 31 2018 | Private funeral held at Great St Mary's Church in Cambridge, attended by notable figures including Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Brian May, and Benedict Cumberbatch. |
| March 14 2018 | Stephen Hawking passed away at the age of 76, having lived more than 50 years following his motor neurone disease diagnosis. |
| 2017 | Established the Professor Stephen Hawking Fellowship with the Cambridge Union Society, accepting the inaugural fellowship and delivering the first Hawking Lecture in his last public appearance before his death. |
| 2017 | Scheduled to appear as the keynote speaker at a Humanists UK conference, highlighting his continued association with humanist and atheist thought. |
| October 2017 | Hawking's final broadcast interview was about the detection of gravitational waves from neutron star collisions. |
| July 2017 | Awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Imperial College London. |
| June 2017 | Endorsed the Labour Party in the UK general election, criticizing Conservative NHS funding cuts, while also expressing skepticism about Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. |
| 2016 | Published the final book in the George series, 'George and the Blue Moon', continuing the science-focused storytelling for children. |
| 2016 | Initiated the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication, with the first recipients being composer Hans Zimmer, physicist Jim Al-Khalili, and the science documentary Particle Fever. |
| 2016 | Awarded the lifetime achievement award at the Pride of Britain Awards for his contribution to science and British culture. |
| 2015 | Received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences, shared with Viatcheslav Mukhanov for their discovery about galaxy formation from quantum fluctuations. |
| 2015 | Hawking applied to trademark his name. |
| July 20 2015 | Helped launch Breakthrough Initiatives, an effort to search for extraterrestrial life. |
| 2014 | Released 'George and the Unbreakable Code', the fourth book in the collaborative children's science fiction series with his daughter. |
| 2014 | Hawking allowed the use of his copyrighted voice in the biographical film 'The Theory of Everything', where he was portrayed by Eddie Redmayne. |
| 2014 | Hawking was featured at the Monty Python Live (Mostly) show, singing an extended version of the 'Galaxy Song' in a pre-recorded video. |
| August 2014 | Signed a letter to The Guardian with 200 public figures supporting Scotland remaining part of the United Kingdom. |
| August 2014 | Accepted the Ice Bucket Challenge to promote ALS/MND awareness, with his children participating on his behalf due to his previous pneumonia in 2013. |
| January 2014 | Called the alleged loss of information in black holes his 'biggest blunder'. |
| 2013 | Published 'My Brief History', a personal memoir providing insights into his life and scientific journey. |
| 2013 | The biographical documentary film 'Hawking', featuring Stephen Hawking himself, was released. |
| September 2013 | Expressed public support for the legalization of assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. |
| August 2012 | Narrated the 'Enlightenment' segment of the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony in London. |
| 2011 | Published 'George and the Big Bang', the third book in the children's science fiction series co-authored with Lucy Hawking. |
| 2011 | Published 'The Dreams That Stuff Is Made of: The Most Astounding Papers of Quantum Physics and How They Shook the Scientific World'. |
| 2011 | Narrated the first episode of the American television series Curiosity on the Discovery Channel, where he made a declarative statement about his views on afterlife and religion. |
| 2011 | Hawking delivered a controversial statement at Google's Zeitgeist Conference, declaring that 'philosophy is dead' and arguing that philosophers have not kept pace with scientific developments. |
| 2010 | Co-authored 'The Grand Design' with Leonard Mlodinow, continuing his mission of making complex scientific concepts accessible. |
| 2010 | Hawking publicly warned about potential risks of alien contact, comparing potential extraterrestrial interactions to Columbus's arrival in America, which was devastating for Native Americans. |
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