Did you know that Stephen Hawking, the British theoretical physicist known for his contributions in the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity and author of the bestseller A Brief History of Time, was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a paralyzing disease that causes the body’s muscles to weaken, at a young age? Immobilized in a wheelchair, he gradually lost the ability to speak and communicated with the environment with the help of a computer voice synthesizer. Fortunately, the disease did not affect his brain, so he could devote himself to work for many years.<\/p>\n
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Did you know that Stephen Hawking, the British theoretical physicist known for his contributions in the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity and author of the bestseller A Brief History of Time, was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a paralyzing disease that causes the body’s muscles to weaken, at a young age? Immobilized in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n