celebrities and cultural luminaries on Saturday with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, covering a list of household names in his final ceremony as president.

Stephen Hawking, who was born in 1942 ... fields of mathematics and science and in 2009, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by then-US President Barack Obama. His life story was ...

Stephen Hawking discovered that black holes emit radiation, wrote the best-selling book A Brief History of Time, and inspired the movie The Theory of Everything during his lifetime. His long list ...