Today, Wednesday, March 14, 2018, the British physicist Stephen Hawking dies.
"I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not in a hurry to die." I have so many things that I want to do before. "
He was born on January 8, 1942 in Oxford, where his parents, Isobel Hawking and Frank Hawking, moved.
As a student, he soon proved his worth. He graduated with honors in Physics at Oxford and later obtained a postgraduate degree in Cosmology at the University of Cambridge.
His first wife was Jane Wilde, whom he met in Oxford at the age of 21, with three children: Robert, Timothy and Lucy.
Luck in love was not present in the relationship with his second wife. Elaine Mason and Hawking were married in 1995, a love with turbulent episodes that eleven years later ended in divorce. Mason, a nurse by profession, did not dedicate herself to the medical care of the astrophysicist, so Lucy Hawking, one of the scientist's sons, denounced him.
He was best known for his theories about black holes and the formation of the universe.