Stephen William Hawking
class honours degree in Natural Science.
Stephen then went on to Cambridge to do research in Cosmology,
there being no one working in that area in Oxford at the time. His
supervisor was Denis Sciama, although he had hoped to get Fred Hoyle who was working in
Cambridge. After gaining his Ph.D. he became first a Research Fellow and later on a
Professorial Fellow at Gonville and Caius College. After leaving the Institute of Astronomy in
1973, Stephen came to the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and
since 1979, has held the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. The chair was founded in
1663 with money left in the will of the Reverend Henry Lucas who had been the Member of
Parliament for the University. It was first held by Isaac Barrow and then in 1669 by Isaac
Newton.
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