After all, if I was going to die anyway, I might as well do some good.
Noted English Physicist Hawking had a rare early-onset, slow-progressing form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) that gradually paralysed him over the decades. At the time of his death, he was still able to communicate using a single cheek muscle attached to a speech-generating device. His popular books include- A Brief History of Time, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays ,The Universe in a Nutshell, On The Shoulders of Giants ,God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History ,The Dreams That Stuff Is Made of: The Most Astounding Papers of Quantum Physics and How They Shook the Scientific World and My Brief History