In 1912, the British ocean liner RMS Titanic, on its maiden voyage  across the Atlantic, struck an iceberg at night and sank, leading  to the deaths of 1517 of the 2223 pers â¦ ons aboard her.
Stephen William Hawking CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (/ËstiËvÉn ËhÉËkÉªÅ/; born 8 January 1942) is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.awking was the first to set forth a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. He is a vigorous supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Jane Hawking. Jane Beryl Hawking Wilde Jones, Ph.D. (nÃ©e Wilde, born 29 March 1944, known publicly as Jane Hawking) is an English author and educator. She is the ex-wife of Stephen Hawking and the author of the autobiography Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen.