Stephen Hawking
Physicist

Stephen Hawking Net Worth

Stephen Hawking was a legendary physicist born on January 8, 1942 in Oxford, England. He is best known for his 1988 book A Brief History of Time, which stayed on the British Sunday Times best-sellers list for a record-breaking 237 weeks. Hawking was renowned for creating a cosmology that relied on the unification of the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.
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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.

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