@CNN: Hawking was diagnosed in 1963, when he was 21, and doctors initially only gave him a few years to live. The disease left him wheelchair-bound and paralyzed. He used a speech synthesizer that allowed him to speak in a computerized voice. https://t.co/VPAkjgKDpO https://t.co/8ht8GCwejU

@CNN: Hawking was diagnosed in 1963, when he was 21, and doctors initially only gave him a few years to live. The disease left him wheelchair-bound and paralyzed.

He used a speech synthesizer that allowed him to speak in a computerized voice. https://t.co/VPAkjgKDpO https://t.co/8ht8GCwejU