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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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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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