Stephen Hawking Family
While he was still an undergraduate stephen hawking met his now ex wife.
Stephen hawking family. His funeral a private event for family friends and colleagues will take place today. Physicist stephen hawking has died at age 76 after a long battle with als. He also worked with space time singularities.
His scottish mother earned her way into oxford university in the 1930s a time when few women. Stephen hawking was born on january 8 1942 in oxford england to frank and isobel hawking. Family life he married jane hawking in 1965 and after their divorce in 1991 married elaine mason in 1995.
His father was a medical researcher. His wealthy paternal great grandfather from yorkshire over extended himself buying farm land and then went bankrupt in the great agricultural depression during the early 20th century. Hawking was born on 8 january 1942 in oxford to frank 1905 1986 and isobel eileen hawking née walker.
Stephen william hawking january 8 1942 march 14 2018 was one of the 20th and 21st century s great minds. A theoretical physicist hawking was stricken with als widely known as lou gehrig s disease in the early 1960s yet since that time managed to write many books including a brief history of time which was a best seller. Jane wilde at a 1963 new year s party shortly before he was diagnosed with the motor neuron disease otherwise known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis als.
The pair got engaged in october 1964 and exchanged marital vows the following year. The recurring character steve is based on him. His mother was one of the first female students to have graduated from the oxford university.
The news of the physicist s death was confirmed by his family. Stephen hawking with his family. He belonged to a family of well educated people.
And we re sure stephen hawking s children are the most devastated and mourning his loss. Hawking s mother was born into a family of doctors in glasgow scotland. The eldest of frank and isobel hawking s four children hawking was born into a family of thinkers.
Beloved cambridge physicist stephen hawking died in the early hours of march 14 in his cambridge home. He had three children with jane named robert lucy and timothy.
