Stephen Hawking 　　 Stephen Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 to Frank and Isobel Hawking.Despite family financial constraints，both parents had attended Oxford University，where Frank had studied medicine and Isobel Philosophy，Politics and Economics.The two met shortly after the beginning of the Second World War at a medical research institute where Isobel was working as a secretary and Frank as a medical researcher.Hawking began his schooling at the Byron House School；he later blamed its “progressive methods” for his failure to learn to read while at the school.

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