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Stephen Hawking (ALS)

Stephen Hawking is a great cosmologist who did tremendous contribution in his career. However, he was under a progressively debilitating illness which is called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). 

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a group of rare neurological diseases that mainly involve the nerve cells (neurons) responsible for controlling voluntary muscle movement. Voluntary muscles produce movements like chewing, walking, and talking. The disease is progressive, meaning the symptoms get worse over time. Currently, there is no cure for ALS and no effective treatment to halt, or reverse, the progression of the disease.

Through the research, I found that the people who have ALS have connections with gender, race, age and heredity, so that I decided to find the data from those four aspects.