Stephen William Hawking was born on January 8 1942 in Oxford, England. When he was 8 he moved to St. Albans with his family. Later on in his life Stephen went to Oxford University where he studied physics. After 3 years of physics he went on to study cosmology at Cambridge. It was during his time at Cambridge he started noticing he was getting clumsier and clumsier. Stephen went in for extensive tests and none of the doctors knew what it was. It wasn’t until 3 weeks in the hospital that St