Stephen Hawking Age, Wife, Death Cause, Family, Biography and More

  

Stephen Hawking

Bio Profile
Real name: Stephen William Hawking
Nickname: Einstein (called in his school)
Profession: Theoretical Physicist
Fields: Quantum Gravity, General Relativity
Thesis: Properties of Extension Universities  
(1995)
Doctoral Adviser: Denis Sciama (British Physicist)

 
Physical stats and more
Height
In centimeters - 169 cm
In meters - 1.69 meters
In feet - 5 '6ches "
Weight
In kg - 62 kg
In Pound-137 pounds
Eye color: blue
Hair color: light brown

Personal life
Date of birth: 8 January 1942
Place of Birth: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Death date: 14 March 2018
Place of Death: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire,
England
Age (at the time of death): 76 years
Chronic disease causing death
Zodiac sign: Capricorn
Nationality: british
Hometown: England, United KIngdom
School: Byron House School, Highgate,
London
St Albans High School for Girls, St Albans
Hertfordshire, England
Radlett Preparatory School, England
St Albans School, Hertfordshire, England
College: University College, Oxford, England
Trinity Hall, Cambridge, England
Educational qualification: PhD from Trinity
Hall, Cambridge

Family
Father- Frank Hawking (Research
Biologist)

Mother- Isobel Hawking (Medical Research
Secretary)

Brother- Edward (adopted)
Sisters- Philip (Younger), Mary (Younger)

Religion: Atheist
Ethnicity: English (father), Scottish (mother)
Address: Stephen Hawking
University of Cambridge
DAMTP
Center for Mathematical Sciences
Wilberforce road
Cambridge
CB3 0WA
UK
Hobbies: Reading science fiction, listening to
classical music, giving motivational
lectures
 
Favorite things
Favorite sports: rowing
Favorite Song: Rod Stewart Love Ballad
"Have I Told You"
Favorite film: Jules and Jim (1962)

Girls, Affairs and more
Marital Status: Divorced
Affairs / Girlfriends:
Jane Wilde (1963–1995)
Elaine Mason (1995–2006)
Wife
Jane Wilde, ex-wife (married 14 July
1965–1995)

Elaine Mason, a nurse, ex-wife (married
1995–2006 September)

 
Children
Sons
Robert Hawking (born1967),
Timothy Hawking (born 1979)
Daughter
Lucy Hawking (born 1970)

Awards / Achievements
  • In 1966, was awarded the Adams Prize.
  • In 1974, awarded the FRS (Partner of the
  Royal Society)
  • In 1978, was awarded the Albert Einstein
  Award.
  • In 1982, was awarded the Order of the
  British Empire (CBE).
  • In 1987, the Dereka Medal was awarded.
  • In 1988, was awarded the Wolf Award.
  • In 1989, was awarded the Royal
  Companion of the Honor (CH).
  • In 2009, was awarded the Presidential
  Medal of Freedom.
  • In 2012, was awarded the Fundamental
  Physics Award.
  • In 2015, BBVA was awarded the
  Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.

Controversy
  • In 2010, some staunch religious
extremists found his remarks controversial when he announced that his latest work showed there was no creator of the universe and further stated that science would explain the beginning of the universe.
  • In 2013, his decision to boycott the Jerusalem Conference sparked controversy in Israel.
 
Money Factor
Net worth: $ 20 million (in 2016)

Some lesser known facts about Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking Smoked ?: Not Known
Did Stephen Hawking drink alcohol ?: Not Known
He was born in Oxford, England (about 300 years after Galileo's death).
During World War II, his parents moved from North London to Oxford, as it was considered a safe place to have children there.
When Stephen was 8 years old, his family moved to a city — St Albans (20 miles north of London).
Although he was not brilliant in studies, he was named Einstein in school.
At St. Albans High School, he was inspired by his math teacher- Dikran Tehta.
He had a close group of friends at St. Albans High School and with the help of his mathematics teacher, Dickran Tahta;  He built a computer from an old telephone switchboard, clock parts and other recycled components.
Stephen wanted to pursue his academics in mathematics and his father advised him to study medicine, however, he chose physics and chemistry as it was not possible to read mathematics at University College, Oxford at that time.
He was also part of the rowing team at University College, Oxford.
He did his research in the field of cosmology at Cambridge under the guidance of Denis Sciama.
In Cambridge, Stephen fell in love with Jane Wilde (a friend of his sister's) before being diagnosed with her illness.
From 1979 to 2009, he served as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.
In 1963, at the age of 21, while in Cambridge, Stephen was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) - a motor neuron disease.
After being diagnosed with ALS, Stephen succumbed to depression as doctors predicted he had only 2 years to live, however, he returned to his work with the encouragement of Dennis Sciama.
His physical abilities declined in the late 1960s.
He developed visual methods (including viewing equations in terms of geometry), as he gradually lost the ability to write.
Stephen was considered a very witty and funny collaborator.
By 1977, his wife met Church Choir singer- Jonathan Heller Jones, who later romantically joined her.
By the 1980s, Stephen became very close to one of his nurses, Elaine Mason, and later married him in September 1995.
Gradually, his speech also deteriorated and in order to communicate, he received a computer program - Equalizer in 1986 from Walter Voltsoz (CEO of Words Plus).
In 2005, he gradually lost the use of his hands and began to control his communication devices with movements of his cheek muscles (with a rate of 1 word / minute).
Stephen was involved in systems with Intel researchers who could transform their facial expressions and brain patterns into switch activities and eventually settled on the word Predictor, made by SwiftKey (a London-based startup).
In 2009, he lost control of his wheelchair independently and now researchers are working on a method to drive a wheelchair at his chin.
Stephen Hawking has published several books including The Universe in a Nutshell (2001) and A Brief History of Time (2005).
  

A Brief History of Time

In 2007, he experienced weightlessness in zero-gravity flight.

On August 12, 2009, US President Barack Obama presented him with a presidential medal in the Blue Room of the White House.
 

Obama and Stephen-Hawking

Several feature films have been made on his life including The Theory of Everything (2014) in which Eddie Redmayne played his role and won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

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