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  Stephen William Hawking   CH CBE FRS FRSA   (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English   theoretical physicist ,   cosmologist , and author who was director of research at the   Centre for Theoretical Cosmology   at the   University of Cambridge   at the time of his death.   He was the   Lucasian Professor of Mathematics   at the University of Cambridge between 1979 and 2009. Hawking was born in Oxford into a family of doctors. He began his university education at University College, Oxford, in October 1959 at the age of 17, where he received a first-class BA (Hons.) degree in physics. He began his graduate work at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in October 1962, where he obtained his PhD degree in applied mathematics and theoretical physics, specialising in general relativity and cosmology in March 1966. In 1963, H...

   Instagram   (commonly abbreviated to   IG   or   Insta )   is an American   photo   and   video sharing   social networking service   created by   Kevin Systrom   and   Mike Krieger . In April 2012,   Facebook   acquired the service for approximately US$1 billion in cash and stock. The app allows users to upload media that can be edited with   filters   and organized by   hashtags   and   geographical tagging . Posts can be shared publicly or with pre-approved followers. Users can browse other users' content by tags and locations and view trending content. Users can   like   photos and follow other users to add their content to a personal   feed . Instagram was originally distinguished by only allowing content to be framed in a square (1:1) aspect ratio with 640 pixels to match the display width of the iPhone at the time. In...

  Steven Paul Jobs    February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American   business magnate ,   industrial designer ,   investor , and   media proprietor . He was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and co-founder of   Apple Inc. ; the chairman and majority shareholder of   Pixar ; a member of   The Walt Disney Company 's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and the founder, chairman, and CEO of   NeXT . Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of the   personal computer revolution   of the 1970s and 1980s, along with his early business partner and fellow Apple co-founder   Steve Wozniak . Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, and put up for adoption. He was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended Reed College in 1972 before dropping out that same year, and traveled through India in 1974 seeking enlightenment and studying Zen Buddhism. ...

  Karl Heinrich Marx   ( German:  5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883 ) was a German   philosopher ,   economist ,   historian ,   sociologist ,   political theorist ,   journalist   and   socialist revolutionary . Born in   Trier ,   Germany , Marx studied   law   and   philosophy   at university. He married   Jenny von Westphalen   in 1843. Due to his political publications, Marx became   stateless   and lived in exile with his wife and children in London for decades, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker   Friedrich Engels   and publish his writings, researching in the   reading room of the British Museum . His best-known titles are the 1848   pamphlet   The Communist Manifesto   and the three-volume   Das Kapital   (1867–1883). Marx's political and philosophical thought had enormous influence o...

  Barack Hussein Obama II     born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th   president of the United States   from 2009 to 2017. A member of the   Democratic Party , Obama was the first African-American president of the   United States . He previously served as a   U.S. senator   from   Illinois   from 2005 to 2008 and as an   Illinois state senator   from 1997 to 2004. Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. After graduating from Columbia University in 1983, he worked as a community organizer in Chicago. In 1988, he enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the  Harvard Law Review . After graduating, he became a civil rights attorney and an academic, teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Turning to elective politics, he represented the 13th distric...