![]() ![]() ![]() Stephen William Hawking, though, was far from normal. "I try to lead as normal a life as possible, and not think about my condition, or regret the things it prevents me from doing, which are not that many." ![]() "I am quite often asked: how do you feel about having ALS?" he once wrote. Remarkably, Hawking defied predictions he would only live for a few years, overcoming its debilitating effects on his mobility and speech that left him paralysed and able to communicate only via a computer speech synthesiser. Most of his life was spent in a wheelchair crippled by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a form of motor neurone disease that attacks the nerves controlling voluntary movement. Born on January 8, 1942-300 years to the day after the death of the father of modern science, Galileo Galilei-he believed science was his destiny.īut fate also dealt Hawking a cruel hand. ![]()
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