When poor people marry, often the product is beggars.

Physicist, astronomer and cosmologist                          

Selected Works:

On Stephen Hawking's website, he denounces the unauthorised publication of The Theory of Everything and asks consumers to be aware that he was not involved in its creation.

Technical:

Singularities in Collapsing Stars and Expanding Universes with Dennis William Sciama - 1969 Comments on Astrophysics and Space Physics Vol 1 - Number 1
The Nature of Space and Time with Roger Penrose - foreword by Michael Atiyah  -1996
The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime with George Ellis - 1973
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind with Abner Shimony,  Nancy Cartwright and Roger Penrose  - 1997
Information Loss in Black Holes - 2005
God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History - 2005
A Brief History of Time - 1988
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays - 1993
The Universe in a Nutshell - 2001
On The Shoulders of Giants. The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy - 2002
A Briefer History of Time - 2005

Children's fiction:Co-written with his daughter Lucy:

George's Secret Key to the Universe - 2007
George and the Cosmic Treasure Hunt - 2009

Films and series:

A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking's Universe
Horizon: The Hawking Paradox
Masters of Science Fiction
Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe.                                              

Mother Isobel Hawking
Father Dr. Frank Hawking, four children, Stephen,  Philippa, Mary and Edward.
First wife, Jane, three children
Second wife Elaine                                              

Selected Awards and Honours:

Eddington Medal - 1975
Hughes Medal of the Royal Society - 1976
Albert Einstein Medal - 1979
Order of the British Empire (Commander - 1982
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society - 1985
Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences - 1986
Wolf Prize in Physics - 1988
Prince of Asturias Awards in Concord - 1989
Companion of Honour - 1989
 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society - 1999
Michelson Morley Award of Case Western Reserve University - 2003
Copley Medal of the Royal Society - 2006
Fonseca Price of the University of Santiago de Compostela - 2008
Presidential Medal of Freedom - 2009, the highest civilian honor in the United States.                                              

On Hawking's website - he denounces the unauthorised publication of The Theory of Everything and asks consumers to be aware that he was not involved in its creation.

Stephen is severely disabled by motor neuron disease.