What Is Robert Hawking Doing Currently? Know His Secret Career

Robert Hawking, the son of the well-known, award-winning cosmologist, physicist, and author, Stephen Hawking has certainly been in the shadows of his father and is supposedly leading a secret life. Less is known about their first wife of Stephen and his children from them. Robert Hawking is the first son of Stephen’s first wife and he has siblings Lucy and Timothy.

Let's get into the insight of the youngest child of Stephen and his first wife Jane. Just stay with us.

The Youngest child of Stephen Hawking: Robert Hawking

Robert was born in May 1967 and his birth and other details were popularized after his mother released a memoir "Travelling to Infinity: My Life With Stephen". As a child, he supposedly had to do things to help his father and struggled greatly due to it. As of now, he is a software engineer by profession and works for Microsoft. He has British nationality but resides in the USA.

Robert Hawking 

Source: Famous People

Robert has released the fact that he has been married. The identity of his wife is yet unknown but the fact that he has two children with his wife is known to many. The couple has a son and a daughter together and the family resides in Seattle, Washington. There seem to be no marital issues with his wife and they certainly are not moving towards divorce.

Robert recently accepted the ALS ice water bucket challenge along with his siblings as this disease is what his father suffers from. He along with his siblings has raised concern regarding the health and safety of his father as bruises were seen on his body as of recently. Stephen, however, declined their ideas that his second wife Elaine Mason might be behind the misdoings.

Robert Hawking's father and his stepmother, Elaine Mason

Source: The Sun

Though Robert has had a secret life, overshadowed by that of his father, he certainly seems to be getting along pretty well with his life. Details about him have recently emerged out and it can be said that his personal life is a secret no more.

Update: Robert Hawking's father died on March 14, 2018, in Cambridge, United Kingdom. He was 76 years old then.