Robert George Hawking was born on 30 April 1967 I then United Kingdom, and is a technology engineer, but possibly better known as the oldest son of professor Stephen Hawking and Jane Wilde Hawking. the exact date of his birth is unknown. When it comes to his occupation, Robert is an engineer.
So just how rich is Robert Hawking as of late 2017? According to authoritative sources, this engineer has a net worth of over $5 million, accumulated from his career in the previously mentioned field during his career now spanning over 25 years. Now working for Microsoft, one of the most prominent technology companies, Hawking reportedly earns a large salary.
Robert Hawking Net Worth $5 million
According to his father, the worldwide known scientist, Stephen Hawking, Robert was very interested in science even as a child, following the footsteps of his parents. He attended University of Oxford, where he studied software engineering, He subsequently worked in Canada for some years, the specifics of his work there are unknown, but it clearly laid the base of his net worth.
Robert then took an opportunity which arose to work as a product engineer for Microsoft, one of the most notable companies in the world, a American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington State, and focused on developing, manufacturing, licensing, supporting and selling computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and services. As of today, he works as a software engineer there, and has spent years working in the fields of information and science, which has considerably boosted his net worth.
Despite Robert’s personal professional success, he is still probably best known as a son of Stephen Hawking, who is a British physicist and cosmologist, who works as the director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at Cambridge. His father is considered a legend in the science world, and a role model for many young people who plan on pursuing that field, as well as for the people with handicaps, as he has succeeded in achieving notable results despite fact that he is in a wheelchair and has a serious medical condition.
Speaking about Robert’s private life, he is reportedly very close to his family and he spent a lot of time as a child taking care of his father who has ALS. Robert’s mother, Jane gave credit to him for taking care of his father saying that he ‘’had to do things for his father that children really shouldn’t have to do’’. Robert’s father, Stephen Hawking is a scientist who works in physics field and is the author of “A Brief History of Time” and “The Universe in a Nutshell”. His mother is also known for her writing efforts which include the memoir she wrote under the title ‘’Traveling to Infinity: My life with Stephen’’, later adapted into a movie entitled “Theory of Everything” directed by James Marsh. It achieved notable success and was nominated for the category of Best Picture for the Academy Awards. Robert has a sister, Lucy, who works as a journalist and writer, and also has a younger brother, Timothy. His parents divorced in 1995 and his father went on to marry his nurse, Elaine Mason, but none of his children attended the wedding ceremony. However, all of his children expressed their worries about Stephen, as they supposedly thought that Elaine wounded him several times, and went on to claim that she even broke his wrist. Nevertheless, Stephen eventually denied this. There were also rumors about Elaine marrying Robert’s father for his good financial status, as she also went on to sell some of his stuff after their divorce.
When it comes to Robert’s relationship status, he is married and has a son and a daughter, but determinedly keeps that part of his life strictly private.
