He served until 2009 , the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics which once occupied Newton at Cambridge University, and was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord in 1989. Universally recognized as one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the world, professor Hawking has written , despite its enormous physical limitations , dozens of articles that together represent a contribution to science that we are not yet able to assess properly . In his first work of disclosure , History of Time . From the big bang to black holes ( Review , 1988) and The Universe in a Nutshell ( Review , 2002 ), we added Briefer History of Time -written with Leonard Mlodinow , and anthologies shoulders of giants . Great works of Physics and Astronomy ( Review 2003), the latter work illustrated ( Review 2004) edition, God created numbers . Mathematical discoveries that changed history ( Review 2006) and Grand Illusion . Great works of Albert Einstein ( Review , 2008).