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View full size image. For most people, the name Stephen Hawking calls to mind the brilliant, wheel chair-bound physicist and his renowned theories about space-time and black holes. But a new film depicts a different side of Hawking: his relationship with his first wife, and his battle with a brutal disease. The Theory of Everything tells the story of Stephen Hawking 's life with Jane Hawking, and his struggle with motor neuron disease, or ALS. The movie reveals how the couple's bond allowed Hawking to persist in the face of increasing disability, and develop the theories that made him so famous.
Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 in Oxford, England, to Frank (1905â1986) and Isobel Hawking (nee NÃ©e; walkerâ1915). 2013 his mother Was. Scottish despite their' families financial, constraints both parents attended The university Of, oxford Where frank studied medicine And, Isobel, Philosophy politics And. economicsawking suffers from a rare early-onset, slow-progressing form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neurone disease or Lou Gehrig 's disease, that has gradually paralysed him over the decades. He now communicates using a single cheek muscle attached to a speech-generating device.