The life of Stephen Hawking – in pictures
The world-renowned British physicist has died aged 76. Here are images from his extraordinary life and times
Main image: Professor Stephen Hawking wrote the bestseller A Brief History of Time. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The GuardianWed 14 Mar 2018 04.08 GMT Last modified on Wed 14 Mar 2018 13.22 GMT
Stephen Hawking during a presentation at the Free University of Berlin. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterStephen Hawking circa 1985. Photograph: Gemma Levine/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterGiving a speech during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Paralympics in London. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterReceiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama at the White House on 12 August 2009. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterMeeting Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican in 2008. Photograph: Olycom SPA/Rex/Shutterstock
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterTaking a trip in a hot air balloon as his 60th birthday treat, on 4 March 2002. Photograph: Keith Jones/Rex/Shutterstock
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterBritish scientists shot for a Guardian Weekend magazine feature, Of Mind and Matter. From left to right, David Attenborough, Brian Cox, Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins. Photograph: Alastair Thain/Alastair Thain (commissioned)
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterEddie Redmayne and Stephen Hawking at the Theory of Everything feature film premiere at the Odeon, Leicester Square, in December 2014. Photograph: Joanne Davidson/Silverhub/Rex/Shutterstock
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterStephen Hawking arrives with his first wife, Jane, and son to receive an honorary degree at Cambridge. Photograph: Frank Martin/the Guardian
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterStephen Hawking in 2005. He held the post of Lucasian professor of mathematics at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University between 1979 and 2009. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterStephen Hawking floating in a zero-gravity jet undertaking parabolic dips to simulate space conditions over the Atlantic. Photograph: AP
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterMeeting the Queen at a reception for the Leonard Cheshire disability charity at St James’s Palace in 2014. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAt his old school, St Albans, giving a lecture on the origin of the universe. Photograph: Matthew Power/Rex/Shutterstock
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterA scene from Errol Morris’s documentary A Brief History of Time (1992). Photograph: Triton/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterStephen Hawking, Magnus Magnusson (centre) and Arthur C Clarke on set on ITV’s Masters of the Universe (1988). Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterStephen Hawking being presented with his illuminated freedom scroll by the chamberlain of the City of London, Peter Kane, in March 2017. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterNasa administrator Charles Bolden meeting Stephen Hawking at Cambridge’s Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Cosmology. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterStephen Hawking, his former wife, Jane, their daughter Lucy and his carers face banks of press photographers at the EE Bafta film awards at the Royal Opera House, London. Photograph: Sarah Lee/the Guardian
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterStephen Hawking in Princeton, New Jersey, in October 1979. Photograph: Santi Visalli/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterGraduate assistant Colin Williams talks to Stephen Hawking at Harvard University in April 1984. Photograph: Boston Globe via Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterStephen Hawking with his second wife, Elaine Mason, after their marriage at Cambridge register office. Photograph: Tim Ockenden/PA
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