![]() ![]() The son of a poor Yorkshire farmer, he was cautious with money. An Oxford-trained doctor, he specialised in tropical diseases, and kept infected mosquitoes at the National Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill. ![]() His mother worked as a tax inspector and then as a secretary, which was how she met his father. Hawking's family lived in a tall Victorian house his parents had bought cheap during the war, when everyone thought London would be bombed flat. "I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy." ![]() He estimates that 200,000 other babies were born on 8 January 1942. Hawking repeats the line but only for his amusement. Books about Hawking are apt to point out that he was born exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo, as if the fact might help us comprehend the origins of his genius. ![]()
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