Stephen Hawking

I won the Pride of Britain Award as a lifetime achievement award for my contribution to science and study of the universe.

My nomination for fellowship of the Royal Society was a remarkable one. It is not what all fellows of the society recieve. My contribution to sciences have been great and this was enough achievement, however the Society wrote the following as nomination letter:
Hawking has made major contributions to the field of general relativity. These derive from a deep understanding of what is relevant to physics and astronomy, and especially from a mastery of wholly new mathematical techniques. Following the pioneering work of Penrose he established, partly alone and partly in collaboration with Penrose, a series of successively stronger theorems establishing the fundamental result that all realistic cosmological models must possess singularities. Using similar techniques, Hawking has proved the basic theorems on the laws governing black holes: that stationary solutions of Einstein's equations with smooth event horizons must necessarily be axisymmetric; and that in the evolution and interaction of black holes, the total surface area of the event horizons must increase. In collaboration with G. Ellis, Hawking is the author of an impressive and original treatise on