An haifi Stephen Hawking a ranar 8 ga Janairu, 1942, wanda ya zo daidai da shekaru 300 da mutuwar Galileo Galilei.
A lokacin da zama ɗalibi a Oxford, hawking bai da himma sosai cikin koyo kuma sau da yawa yana cin lokaci wasa wasa da wasa da wasa.
An san Hawking a matsayin daya daga cikin manyan masana kimiyyar lissafi a duniya, amma bai taba cin kyautar Nobel saboda sakamakon bincikensa yana da wuyar tabbatar da shi ba.
Hawking ya sami hujjoji masu shekaru 21 kuma likita ya ba kimanta zai rayu tsawon shekaru biyu. Koyaya, ya sami damar tsira har zuwa shekara 76.
Hawking shine wani bako a sanannen sanannun zane-zane na abubuwan da suka faru na Simpsons da Big Bang Bang.
Hawking kuma sanannen ne ga littafinsa takaice takaitaccen tarihin lokaci, wanda ya sayar da fiye da miliyan 10 a duk duniya.
Hawking sau daya ya taka rawa a cikin wani fim din da aka yi da aka yi a shekarar 2014, mahimmancin komai.
Hawking shine fan na wasanni, musamman kwallon kafa. Har ma ya kasance mai goyon bayan kungiyar mai tsattsauran ra'ayi na kungiyar kwallon kafa ta Ingilishi, Tottenham Hotspur.
Hawking ya shahara saboda halin da yake dariya, wanda yawanci yakan ɗauki irin dariya game da kansa da ƙarancin yanayinta.
