A teenager whose nickname was “Einstein” A famous physicist and author A great thinker who put forth a widely accepted theory on the beginning of time All of the above! Learn more about the renowned British scientist, professor, and author who spent his entire career trying to answer the question: “Where did the universe come from?” Stephen Hawking was born exactly three hundred years after the death of the scientist Galileo, so maybe it was written in the stars that he would become a famous sci ...