Age, Biography and Wiki
Birth Day | January 8, 1942 |
Birth Place | Oxford, England |
Age | 78 YEARS OLD |
Died On | Mar 14, 2018 (age 76) |
Birth Sign | Capricorn |
Net worth: $20 million (2024)
About
Legendary Physicist who became renowned for creating a cosmology that relied on the unification of the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. His 1988 book A Brief History of Time stayed on the British Sunday Times best-sellers list for a record-breaking 237 weeks.
Before Fame
He was the coxswain for the rowing team at Oxford before suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Trivia
He had ALS, also know as Lou Gehrig's disease, and was almost entirely paralyzed, and communicated through a speech generating device.
Family Life
He married Jane Wilde in 1965, and after their divorce in 1991, married Elaine Mason in 1995. He had three children with Jane named Robert, Lucy, and Timothy. He had two younger sisters named Philippa and Mary and an adopted brother named Edward.
Associated With
He was a respected lifetime associate of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences similarly to that of Max Planck.