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  • Stephen Hawkings physics tutor, Robert Berman,
    later said in the New York Times Magazine
  • It was only necessary for him to know that
    something could be done, and he could do it
    without looking to see how other people did it.
    ... He didnt have very many books, and he didnt
    take notes. Of course, his mind was completely
    different from all of his contemporaries.
  • Hawkings unimpressive study habits gave him a
    final examination score on the borderline between
    first and second class honours, making an "oral
    examination" necessary.
  • Berman said of the oral examination
  • And of course the examiners then were
    intelligent enough to realize they were talking
    to someone far more clever than most of
    themselves.

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  • Hawking describes himself as lucky" despite his
    disease. Its slow progression has allowed him
    time to make influential discoveries and it has
    not hindered him from having, in his own words,
    "a very attractive family". When Jane was asked
    why she decided to marry a man with a 3-year life
    expectancy, she responded Those were the days
    of atomic gloom and doom, so we all had a rather
    short life expectancy."

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  • Jane Hawking, Hawkings first wife, with whom he
    had three children, cared for him until 1991 when
    the couple separated, reportedly due to the
    pressures of fame and his increasing disability.
  • Hawking married his nurse, Elaine Mason (who
    was also the previous wife of David Mason,
    designer of the first version of Hawkings
    talking computer), in 1995. In October 2006,
    Hawking filed for divorce from his second wife.

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  • University College (in full, the The Master and
    Fellows of the College of the Great Hall of the
    University of Oxford), is one of the constituent
    colleges of the University of Oxford. It is a
    contender for being the oldest of the colleges of
    the university, and is amongst the largest in
    terms of population.

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  • A degree may be awarded with or without
    honours, with the class of an honours degree
    based on the average mark of the assessed work a
    candidate has completed. Below is a list of the
    possible classifications with common
    abbreviations.
  • First-Class Honours (First or 1st)
  • Upper Second-Class Honours (21)
  • Lower Second-Class Honours (22)
  • Third-Class Honours (Third or 3rd)
  • Ordinary degree (Pass)
  • Fail (no degree is awarded)
  • Until the 1970s, Oxford awarded Fourth-class
    Honours degrees.

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  • The Big Bang is the cosmological model of the
    universe that is best supported by all lines of
    scientific evidence and observation. As used by
    scientists, the term Big Bang generally refers to
    the idea that the universe has expanded from a
    primordial hot and dense initial condition at
    some finite time in the past, and continues to
    expand to this day.

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  • A black hole is a theoretical region of space in
    which the gravitational field is so powerful that
    nothing, not even electromagnetic radiation (e.g.
    visible light), can escape its pull after having
    fallen past its event horizon. The term derives
    from the fact that the absorption of visible
    light renders the hole's interior invisible, and
    indistinguishable from the black space around it.

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  • Despite its interior being invisible, a black
    hole may reveal its presence through an
    interaction with matter that lies in orbit
    outside its event horizon. For example, a black
    hole may be perceived by tracking the movement of
    a group of stars that orbit its center.
    Alternatively, one may observe gas (from a nearby
    star, for instance) that has been drawn into the
    black hole. The gas spirals inward, heating up to
    very high temperatures and emitting large amounts
    of radiation that can be detected from earthbound
    and earth-orbiting telescopes. Such observations
    have resulted in the general scientific consensus
    thatbarring a breakdown in our understanding of
    natureblack holes do exist in our universe.
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