Before his son chronicled the beginning of time Frank Hawking feared Stephen was a disenchanted student with little drive, his diaries reveal.
Stephen Hawking, whose work in the field of cosmology remains one of the greatest contributions to science, was just like many other university undergraduates.
When his son was aged 19 at Oxford University, his father remarked in January 1961: ‘We are a little worried at the way Stephen is turning out.
‘He hangs round the house with little initiative and does not study much.’
But by the age of 24 Stephen’s thesis on an expanding universe saw him rewarded with a doctorate
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