This is a selection of photos that we’ve gathered in order to show you a part of the life of Stephen Hawking. Unfortunately, the world-renowned British physicist has died aged 76 and in order to celebrate his life we’ve made this selection.

From British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking during a presentation at the Free University of Berlin to Stephen Hawking, his former wife, Jane, their daughter Lucy and his carers face banks of press photographers at the EE Bafta film awards at the Royal Opera House, London, all these photos will amaze you.

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British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking during a presentation at the Free University of Berlin.
Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

Cambridge University professor and fellow Stephen Hawking, circa 1985.
Photograph: Gemma Levine/Getty Images

Giving a speech during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Paralympics in London.
Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP

Receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama at the White House on 12 August 2009.
Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock

Meeting Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican in 2008.
Photograph: Olycom SPA/Rex/Shutterstock

Taking a trip in a hot air balloon as his 60th birthday treat, on 4 March 2002.
Photograph: Keith Jones/Rex/Shutterstock

British scientists shot for a Guardian Weekend magazine feature, Of Mind and Matter. From left to right, David Attenborough, Brian Cox, Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins.
Photograph: Alastair Thain/Alastair Thain (commissioned)

Eddie Redmayne and Stephen Hawking at The Theory of Everything feature film premiere at the Odeon, Leicester Square in December 2014.
Photograph: Joanne Davidson/Silverhub/Rex/Shutterstock

Stephen Hawking arrives with his first wife, Jane, and son to receive an honorary degree at Cambridge.
Photograph: Frank Martin/the Guardian

Stephen Hawking held the post of Lucasian professor of mathematics at the department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics at Cambridge University between 1979 and 2009.
Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

Stephen Hawking floating in a zero-gravity jet undertaking parabolic dips to simulate space conditions over the Atlantic.
Photograph: AP

Meeting the Queen at a reception for the Leonard Cheshire disability charity at St James’s Palace in 2014.
Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock

At his old school, St Albans, giving a lecture on the origin of the universe.
Photograph: Matthew Power/Rex/Shutterstock

A scene from Errol Morris’s documentary A Brief History of Time (1992).
Photograph: Triton/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock

Stephen Hawking, Magnus Magnusson (centre) and Arthur C Clarke on set on ITV’s Masters of the Universe (1988).
Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock

Stephen Hawking being presented with his illuminated freedom scroll by the chamberlain of the City of London, Peter Kane in March 2017.
Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

Nasa administrator Charles Bolden meeting Stephen Hawking at Cambridge’s department of applied mathematics and theoretical cosmology.
Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

Stephen Hawking, his former wife, Jane, their daughter Lucy and his carers face banks of press photographers at the EE Bafta film awards at the Royal Opera House, London.
Photograph: Sarah Lee/the Guardian