Transcript of A brilliant mind with a body that cannot move By Bryn Parry-Jones.
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- A brilliant mind with a body that cannot move By Bryn
Parry-Jones
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- Where and when was he born?
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- Dr Frank Hawking Isobel Hawking Philippa and Mary Hawking
Adopted Edward
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- St Albans School for Girls St Albans High School Oxford
University Cambridge University Professor of Mathematics
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- Cosmologist Professor of Physics Author Academic Children
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- He has written 13 books. 11 of these are academic books not
focused towards children His most famous book is A Brief History of
Time It sold 9 million copies world wide His 2 Childrens books are:
Georges Secret Key to the universe Georges Cosmic Treasure
Hunt
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- 1975 Eddington Medal 1976 Hughes Medal of the Royal Society
1979 Albert Einstein Medal 1981 Franklin Medal 1982 Order of the
British Empire (Commander) 1985 Gold Medal of the Royal
Astronomical Society 1986 Member of the Pontifical Academy of
Sciences 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics 1989 Prince of Asturias Awards
in Concord 1989 Companion of Honour 1999 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld
Prize of the American Physical Society 2003 Michelson Morley Award
of Case Western Reserve University 2006 Copley Medal of the Royal
Society 2008 Fonseca Price of the University of Santiago de
Compostela 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom the highest civilian
honour in the United States
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- Motor Neuron disease
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- Click on Image to play short video on YouTube requires internet
access
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- George meets his next door neighbour Eric whos a scientist and
has an amazing computer called COSMOS that can draw windows into
space! George gets caught up in the adventures with Eric. Eric gets
sucked into a black hole, George rides a comet and George learns a
lot about the universe and stops a bad scientist from steeling
COSMOS just in enough time to make it to his presentation at school
which is titled My secret key to the universe!
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- Any questions?