Furthermore, he was voted into world’s Top 100 Public Intellectual in a 2005 poll. Guess who is the “father of modern linguistics”? He is, of course! A cognitive scientist, philosopher and political observer, his work revolutionized everything from artificial intelligence to music theory. As a physicist, he has been described as “the most brilliant physicist of his generation” and “the world’s greatest living theoretical physicist.” He’s also a part of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people of the world with accolades like the Fields Medal, the Dirac Prize, the Albert Einstein Medal and the Nemmers Prize in Mathematics. Do these words sound familiar to you? Well, this man has contributed plenty to these. String theory, M-theory, quantum gravity and super-symmetry. Pure genius, this astrophysicist! Despite undergoing depression and motor neuron disease, he managed to reinvent his academic career and today, is famous for his 1988 book, A Brief History of Time, has pioneered several theories on black holes and made plenty of guest appearances in various TV shows like The Simpsons, Futurama and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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