What Are Stephen Hawking's Greatest Contributions?

[shounakbhatta]

Hello,

We all know about the intellectual giant Dr.Hawking -- perhaps named after Einstein. If we want to know what had been, till date, the several contributions of Stephen Hawking in General relativity or astrophysics or black holes or...What the list would be?

Thanks

 

[UltrafastPED]

Here is one list: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/jan/08/stephen-hawking-science-greatest-hits

He's also written some books: "The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time" with co-author George Ellis - something for the gravitational theorist to study!

Plus some popular books, which have contributed to his public fame.