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Written By: Admin | Published : July 29, 2013 11:53 AM IST
Renowned physicist and considered by many to be one of the smartest men alive, Stephen Hawking has revealed that doctors wanted to pull the plug on him while he was writing A Brief History of Time in 1985. But his first wife, Jane Hawking refused to end her husband's life and demanded doctors in Switzerland to return him to Cambridge. A new film on the physicist's life recalls that while writing his most well-known book the author contracted pneumonia which he thought would prevent him from finishing arguably the most widely read book on science which has sold over 10 million copies.
The life-threatening motor neurone disease left voiceless but he went on to publish the book anyway and took his place among physics' greatest and brightest men.
Although the life-saving treatment left him unable to speak, the motor neurone disease sufferer went on to publish the book which brought him worldwide fame, the newspaper added. 'The doctors thought I was so far gone that they offered Jane [the option] to turn off the machine,' Hawking, 71, says in the documentary. 'The weeks of intensive care that followed were the darkest of my life. 'But slowly the drugs worked, though a small incision in my throat robbed me of my ability to talk. I was then put on a ventilator and hopes of finishing my book seemed over.'
Hawking also speaks openly about his two failed marriages, his battles with ill-health in the documentary which coincides with the release of his biography. The former Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge University hopes to travel to space with Sir Richard Branson's space tourism business, Virgin Galactic. The documentary film, Hawking, is due to be released later this year
