WARNING: This page is not actually maintained by Stephen Hawking. This myspace and the blogs have been created by three students for a webquest, to be used by other students in their class. While we appreciate messages and comments, know that you are not actually communicating with Stephen Hawking.
Students doing the webquest: read our blogs!!!
I am arguably the most famous scientist alive today. My contributions to theoretical physics, most notably in black holes and quantum gravity, have given me worldwide renown as one of the most brilliant minds of our time. I have furthered the work of other distinguished scientists, such as Albert Einstein, and transformed popular view on the Universe and its origins. I have also striven to make my work accessible to all, writing popular books like A Brief History of Time which earned a Guinness World Record for a 237 London Sunday Times bestseller list run. I have also captured the world’s attention with my heartbreaking battle with Lou Gherig’s disease; although I am now confined to a wheelchair, I have lived far beyond the original 2 to 3 year prognosis. I am a gifted man who has dazzled the world with both my genius and my perseverance.
heres some links where you can find more information about me!
http://www.hawking.org.uk/about/aindex.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking
http://library.thinkquest.org/C007571/english/advance/biogra
phy.htm
www.britannica.com/eb/article-9039612/stephen_w_hawking.html
www.age-of-the-sage.org/scientist/stephen_hawking_biography.
html
Bingo WebQuest
First, fill out the blank bingo sheet by putting in letters A-X randomly. You can find it by clicking here .
Then, answer all the following questions about me by using the websites above and then look for the corresponding letter that matches the answer. Make sure you write down your answers and what letters you matched them to! Then find each letter, in the order the questions are in, on your bingo sheet. Whoever gets Bingo in the least number of letters earns bonus points!
1. What field of cosmology am I known for?
2. I went to Cambridge to study _________.
3. What disease have I been disabled by?
4. What team was I on during college?
5. How am I able to communicate?
6. How do I think we should ensure the continuation of the human race?
7. What was my first popular book that appealed to the average person called?
8. What field was my father, Frank Hawking, involved in?
9. Who was my first wife?
10. What model of the Universe did I propose?
11. What medal was I awarded by the Royal Society of London?
12. My work has led to more discoveries on the properties of _________.
13. What did I study at Oxford?
14. What post, that has previously been held by Sir Isaac Newton, do I currently hold?
15. I used _____________________ to prove that space and time would start with the big bang and end in black holes.
16. In the 1970’s, I proposed that subatomic particles are emitted by black holes until they run out of energy and explode. What are these particles called?
17. My research has shown the necessity of combining ______________ with ________________, which together are called Quantum Gravity.
18. How many honorary degrees do I have?
19. In 1985, I caught pneumonia and had a _____________, which removed my voice.
20. I am not happy that my voice synthesizer has a(n) ___________ accent because I am ______________.
21. Which of the following has not been written by me?
I. A Brief History of Time
II. Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
III. The Hungry Hungry Caterpillar
IV. The Universe in a Nutshell
22. What did my father want me to study?
23. I had an affair with my nurse. Who was she?
24. What title did he receive in 1989?
Find your answers and their corresponding letters here:
a. A Brief History of Time
b. Hawking Radiation
c. Cosmology
d. Twelve
e. American, British
f. Research Biology
g. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
h. Elaine Maison
i. The Copley Medal
j. Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
k. Black Holes
l. Through an infra-red “blink switch†clipped to my glasses
m. The Hungry Hungry Caterpillar
n. Jane Wilde
o. Rowing
p. Medicine
q. Eintein’s General Theory of Relativity
r. Tracheotomy Operation
s. By colonizing the moon or other planets
t. Physics
u. One with no boundary in Space-Time
v. Black Holes
w. General Theory and Quantum Theory
x. Companion of Honor
You will need to hand in a list of your answers along with the letters that match them and a filled in Bingo sheet with your 5-in-a-row clearly marked. Good luck!
