in Oxford, he has two sisters, Philippa and Mary, and an adopted brother, Edward. She wanted to study mathematics but because there were no professors at Oxford University to teach those courses, he decided to study physics. Shortly after he began his postgraduate studies at Cambridge he began to develop the symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis but that did not stop him from obtaining his doctorate degree in Cosmology, one of his achievements was the Hawking radiation equation, the first that unifies the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, he married twice and had 3 children. In 1990 he began to write scientific disclosure books helping his readers to understand the greatest achievements of physics of those year, one of the most famous being a brief history of time and the most controversial the great design, in which he affirms the lack of necessity of the existence of God for the creation of the universe. The dream he had was to achieve a unique equation that describes the universe, he died on March 14, 2018, he died at his home in Cambridge.