Stephen Hawking was living proof that it is possible to beat all odds and overcome even the most difficult of obstacles.

Stephen Hawking lived with motor neurone disease from the age of 21. Prof Hawking showed that, despite public perceptions of what a disabled person can do, people with disabilities can achieve ...

A cannabis-based drug may help ease muscle movement for people suffering from motor neuron disease ... from the brain to the muscles. Stephen Hawking had ALS, which had reduced him to a wheel ...

At the age of 22 Prof Hawking was given only a few years to live after being diagnosed with a rare form of motor neurone disease. Obituary: Stephen Hawking A life in pictures Reaction to his death ...

Today the victim of motor neurone disease ... and five years after the disease is triggered. Victims have perished in a matter of months but Professor Stephen Hawking, the world famous author ...

When he was 21, Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease. Doctors told him he had a few years to live. He's now 72 and one of the foremost physicists alive - a professor at the ...

Stephen Hawking has died peacefully at home at the age of 76. The world-renowned physicist was told he would only have two years to live when diagnosed motor neuron disease, a rare form of ALS ...

Stephen Hawking was the most recognisable ... He had reached a pinnacle of intellectual achievement despite the facts motor neurone disease had ravaged his body, he could no longer walk or feed ...

Stephen Hawking was 21 years old when he was diagnosed with motor neuron disease, a rare form of ALS. Doctors told him he would only live for a few years. More than 50 years later, he's now 73 and ...

Stephen Hawking discovered that black holes emit radiation, wrote the best-selling book A Brief History of Time, and inspired the movie The Theory of Everything during his lifetime. His long list ...

Globally renowned physicist Professor Stephen Hawking has died ... this while suffering from the debilitating effects of Motor Neurone Disease, diagnosed at the age of just 21, which left him ...