{"id":252239,"date":"2018-03-14T06:11:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T04:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=252239"},"modified":"2018-03-14T06:49:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T04:49:19","slug":"stephen-hawking-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/252239-stephen-hawking-has-died.html","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Physicist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Hawking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Professor Stephen Hawking<\/strong><\/a> died on 13 March at the age of 76, a family spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>Hawking is known for his work in the fields of theoretical physics and cosmology, which included ground-breaking models on black holes.<\/p>\n<p>He was also an accomplished author, with bestselling books which included A Brief History of Time, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays, and My Brief History.<\/p>\n<p>He was the first academic to set out a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>Hawking suffered from an early-onset, slow-progressing form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis &#8211;\u00a0a form of motor neurone disease &#8211; that has gradually paralysed him.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors expected Hawking to only live for a few years after his diagnoses at 21, but he lived with this condition for over 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>In his later years, he was wheelchair bound and communicated using a single cheek muscle attached to a speech-generating device.<\/p>\n<p>Hawking was the subject of the Oscar-winning film The Theory of Everything in 2014, which depicted his life at Cambridge University.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/234302-stephen-hawkings-thesis-crashes-university-website.html\">Stephen Hawking\u2019s thesis crashes university website<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":234168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[7709],"class_list":["post-252239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-stephen-hawking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252243,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252239\/revisions\/252243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}