When1: 1988
When2: 2002
Who: Stephen Hawking [Hawking, Stephen]
What: physicist
Where: England
works\ Brief History of Time [1988]; Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays [1993]; Nature of Space and Time [1996: with Roger Penrose]; Universe in a Nutshell [2001]; Future of Spacetime [2002: with Kip Thorne, Igor Novikov, Timothy Ferris, and Alan Lightman]
Detail: He lived 1942 to ? and studied singularities and black holes. He predicted that black holes can radiate random thermal radiation and so have temperature [1974]. Black-hole surfaces create virtual-particle pairs, and one particle can leave black hole, resulting in mass loss and thermal radiation (Hawking radiation).
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