Stephen Hawking was a renowned scientist famed for his work on black holes and relativity.
He published several popular science books such as A Brief History of Time.
Professor Hawking was also a wheelchair user who lived with motor neurone disease from the age of 21.
Yes, he was an award-winning scientist, but a lot of the coverage after Prof Hawking’s death has created a narrative of an “inspirational” figure who was “crippled” by his condition and “confined to a wheelchair”….read more