He was a theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, cosmologist and British scientific popularizer. His most important works consisted in contributing, along with Roger Penrose, theorems regarding spatiotemporal singularities within the framework of general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes would emit radiation what is known today as Hawking radiation (or Bekenstein-Hawking radiation times). One of the main characteristics of his personality was his contribution to the scientific debate, sometimes betting publicly with other scientists, the best known case is his participation in the discussion about the conservation of information in the black holes.
