ABOUTLegendary physicist who became

ABOUT
Legendary physicist who became renown 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 has ALS, a motor neuron disease related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is almost entirely paralyzed, and communicates 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; has two younger sisters named Philippa and Mary; and has an adopted brother named Edward.
ASSOCIATED WITH
He is a respected lifetime associate of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, along with Max Planck.