Stephen Hawking Disease News

Renowned British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has died at 76. Hawking, whose brilliant mind ranged across time and space though his body was paralysed by disease, has died, a family spokesman said.

For Stephen Hawking, death was a purely mechanical process. 'I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail,' he once said

ALS, the disease that Stephen Hawking was suffering, attacks the motor nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, hampering their ability to communicate with muscles and control voluntary movements, leading to eventual paralysis