http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GeniusCripple http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GeniusCripple The inspiration for many of these entries: St

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GeniusCripple http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GeniusCripple The inspiration for many of these entries: Stephen Hawking, perhaps one of the most famous scientists in the world today, who as the result of Motor Neurone Disease (also known as ALS and Lou Gehrig's Disease) is quadriplegic and uses a wheelchair, and who, since a 1985 tracheotomy, has used a computer voice synthesizer to speak. Somehow, though, he was able to have an extramarital affair, so apparently not everything is paralyzed.