Stephen William Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who, at the time of his death, was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Read More
the theory of general relativity, which describes gravity as resulting from the (large-scale) warping of space-time by massive objects, and the theory of quantum mechanics, which describes physics at the smallest length scales. ...