Deceased astrophysicist
Google honors Stephen Hawking on his 80th birthday with Doodle
British mathematician and astrophysicist Stephen Hawking died on March 14, 2018
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Google honors Stephen Hawking with a doodle. The British mathematician and astrophysicist would have turned 80 today.
Experts valued him for his theories on the origin of the cosmos and black holes. Today, January 8, 2022, Stephen Hawking would have turned 80.
He can no longer celebrate it. The British mathematician and astrophysicist died four years ago on March 14th at the age of 76. In his honor, Google dedicates a doodle to him, which leads to a pixel art video on YouTube and which shows a review of his life: In 1963, at the age of 21, Hawking fell ill with the incurable nerve paralysis amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Only five years later he was in a wheelchair.
Google Doodle in honor of Stephen Hawking
After contracting pneumonia in 1985, he had to rely on a voice computer. Stephen Hawking tells his story about the images in the doodle video, which initially show him on the university campus in Oxford, where he began studying physics in 1959 and later at Cambridge university: “I’m Stephen Hawking. We were 21 my ambitions reduced to zero. Since then everything in my life has been a great gift. Although I cannot move and have to speak through a computer, my thoughts are free “.
The Google Doodle shows stations from the life of Stephen Hawking in a pixel art video
The video shows how he walks around the university grounds with books under his arm, first without a stick, then with a stick, then falls and ends up first on a stretcher and finally in a wheelchair. Shortly afterwards he takes off in an astronaut look in a rocket-powered wheelchair in the direction of space, where he floats through black holes.
Stephen Hawking: “As long as there is life there is hope”
“I’ve spent my life traveling the universe in my head. I have a simple goal. I want to fully understand the universe, why it is the way it is and why it exists in the first place. One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection just does not exist. Without imperfection we would not exist. Black holes are not really black: They glow ultra-hot and the smaller they are, the more they glow. Humans in this universe are incredibly small. But we are all capable of very, very great things “.
At the end of the two-and-a-half-minute video, he floats back towards the earth with a parachute and lands in the middle of a flock of sheep from which he drives into the city, where people cheer him.
In the end, he still has an important message for humanity: “There should be no limits to human endeavors. No matter what set of fate life may have in store for us. As long as there is life there is hope. Be courageous, be curious, be determined and overcome all obstacles. You can do it “.
Hawking himself has impressively demonstrated that man can do anything. Despite his early illness, he was married twice, had three children, became a professor of mathematics at Cambridge and a bestselling author. After his death 55 years after his diagnosis, he is considered to be the longest surviving ALS patient.