---
title: "Stephen Hawking"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Stephen Hawking"
aliases: ["Stephen W. Hawking"]
first_seen: "2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["black hole information paradox","Hawking radiation","Page-time paradox","semiclassical gravity","central dogma (black hole physics)"]
seek_code_commit: "d40ee39"
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British theoretical physicist (University of Cambridge), known for his 1974–1975 discovery of black hole (Hawking) radiation and his 1976 formulation of the black hole information loss paradox. Matters to this vault as the author of the semiclassical calculation whose ever-increasing radiation-entropy curve past the "Page time" conflicts with [[entity-don-page|Don Page]]'s unitarity-derived entropy bound — the specific tension [[claim-corbeel-de-haro-2026-page-time-paradox-partially-resolved-replica-wormholes|Corbeel & De Haro's 2026 review]] centers its Page-time-paradox analysis on.

## References
- [[claim-corbeel-de-haro-2026-page-time-paradox-partially-resolved-replica-wormholes]] — his semiclassical calculation is the side of the paradox the Page bound conflicts with

## Log
- 2026-10-21: Page created at promotion of the Corbeel & De Haro black-hole-information capture.
- 2026-10-22: Almheiri, Hartman, Maldacena, Shaghoulian & Tajdini's "The entropy of Hawking radiation" (arXiv:2006.06872), read directly, independently confirms that Hawking himself objected to the black-hole "central dogma" — "In fact, Hawking famously objected to it" — a specific historical attribution now confirmed at primary rather than taken on the review's gloss. See [[claim-corbeel-de-haro-2026-black-hole-central-dogma-is-unproven-modelling-assumption]].