Name: Stephen Hawking (1942-Present)
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Dominant Cortex: Left
University: Oxford
Key Contributions: "British theoretical physicist born on January 8, 1942 in Oxford, England. Due to affliction with Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; ALS), Hawking is confined to a wheelchair and is unable to speak without the aid of a computer voice synthesizer. In 1973, Hawking showed that black holes radiate as if they have a temperature proportional to their surface gravity, and therefore evaporate over time. In 1974, Hawking proposed that black hole radiation laws were equivalent to thermodynamic laws. He showed that the entropy is S=Ac^3/4(ln10)Gh where A is the surface area, c is the speed of light, G is the gravitational constant, and is h-Bar ." ( More Info )

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