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Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford（牛津），England on the eighth of January, 1942. He went to school in ST Albans-a small city near London. After leaving school, Mr. Hawking went to Oxford University where he studied physics, then he went to Cambridge University（剑桥大学）．
When he was 29 years old, Mr. Hawking got a bad illness. He couldn't speak or一 move without the help of a machine（机器）．Doctors said they, had no way to help him. He would die before he was 23. At first, Mr. Hawking became very sad. After a while, though, he began to see his life in a different way. He worked hard and later became a very famous professor（教授）．Today he still works at Cambridge University as a professor.
