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Posted: 2018-03-14 06:47:57

Updated March 14, 2018 19:23:11

Physicist Stephen Hawking was given only two years to live when he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 1963.

Here are some images from his extraordinary life.

Photo: Professor Stephen Hawking attends the launch of Speak to Me, an exhibition which explores the role of new technologies in improving communication for people with disabilities in 1993. (Reuters)

Photo: A kiss for scientist and theorist Stephen Hawking from his new bride Elaine Mason after their civil wedding in 1995. (Reuters: Paul Bates)

Photo: Stephen Hawking at Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida on April 26, 2007. Hawking took a flight that gave the renowned scientist, who uses a wheelchair, a taste of the weightlessness of space. (Reuters: Charles W Luzier)

Photo: Stephen Hawking took a zero-gravity flight in 2007. (Wikimedia Commons: NASA)

Photo: Stephen Hawking meets former South African president Nelson Mandela at Mandela's Foundation office in Johannesburg on May 15, 2008. (Reuters: Pool)

Photo: Pope Benedict XVI greets Stephen Hawking during a meeting of science academics at the Vatican in October 2008. (Reuters: Osservatore Romano (Vatican))

Photo: US President Barack Obama talks with Stephen Hawking at the White House before a ceremony presenting him and 15 others with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on August 12, 2009. (Wikimedia Commons: Pete Souza/White House)

Photo: United States President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Freedom to scientist Stephen Hawking during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington on August 12, 2009. (Reuters: Jason Reed)

Photo: At his 71st birthday celebration, Stephen Hawking was presented with a commemorative 300-millimetre silicon wafer by Martin Curley, vice-president of Intel Labs Europe. (Flickr: Intel Free Press)

Photo: Queen Elizabeth meets Stephen Hawking during a reception for Leonard Cheshire Disability charity at St James's Palace in London on May 29, 2014. (Reuters: Jonathan Brady/Pool)

Photo: Stephen Hawking poses with actress Felicity Jones, ex-wife Jane Wilde Hawking and actor Eddie Redmayne at the UK Premiere of the film The Theory of Everything, which was based around his life. (Reuters: Andrew Winning)

Photo: Stephen Hawking and his daughter Lucy. (Angela Micu)

Photo: Stephen Hawking addresses a public meeting in Cape Town on May 11, 2008. (Reuters: Mike Hutchings)

Topics: science-and-technology, human-interest, physics, united-states

First posted March 14, 2018 17:47:57

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