Journalist and author Lucy Hawking describes what it was like to grow up with Stephen Hawking as a father. From his childhood—where his teachers didn't believe he would amount to anything—to...
========== This is my father, Stephen Hawking. and it's a very nice photograph of him he's a very brilliant man he's a theoretical phisicist and that means that he looks for ways to understand the universe around us using the laws of physics. And so he's a very brilliant man and he's the Lucasian professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University so that's a very long way to say it's the same job of the great scientist Isaac Newton once held And he's won many awards and been given many honorary degrees And so you would think that this would have been obvious right from the beginning Well this is the part of the talk where we do some time travel We're going to go back and take a look So here he is This is my father as a smal...