Stephen Hawking

The mind that roamed the event horizons of black holes while trapped in a chair. Hawking showed that black holes aren't completely black, but leak radiation, slowly evaporating over eons. He represents the "Triumph of the Intellect"—the man who sought a "Theory of Everything" and asked the most daunting question of all: "What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?"