Two days ago, Hocking's funeral was held at the University of Cambridge, Santa Maria cathedral. Although the day of Cambridge rain, but early in the morning, on both sides of the road are still crowded with tens of thousands of people from all over the world.
Many celebrities also appeared on the scene, such as freckles, Lily Cole and so on. We all spontaneously came to deliver this great scientist's last step.
After that, Hocking's ashes will be moved to London's Westminster Abbey, together with the famous scientists Newton and Darwin. Hocking's family made the last farewell to Hocking at the funeral.
Speaking of Hocking's family, many people know that he had two wives, the first wife, Jane, the two people at first sight, and Hocking, who was ill after his illness, to take care of him. The second wife was his former caregiver, Elaine. However, all two marriages ended in divorce.
In fact, many people may not know that Hocking and his first wife, Jane, have three very excellent children, two sons and one daughter.
I believe everyone still remember the challenge of the ice bucket that swept the globe in 2014. Hocking accepted the challenge, but it was not Hocking himself, but his three children.
Just because they are not public figures, they are always low-key and have their own lives, so they are often ignored by everyone. So today, she wants to tell you that Hocking, the three child of genius, is also talented.
Let's start with Hocking's daughter, Lucy Hocking Lucy Hawking. Lucy should be the most famous three child of Hocking.
She was born in 1969, and is the second child of Hocking. She spent a long time in her childhood at University of Cambridge, probably because she grew up in a famous school, and inherited his father's hegemony gene. She, like her father, Hocking, graduated from the University of Oxford, the highest school in the world.
Speaking of course, Hocking's parents also graduated from University of Oxford, plus their daughter Lucy and Hocking's family. They can be regarded as truly worthy of the Oxford family.
In addition to inheriting his father's high intelligence, Lucy also inherited the genius of his mother and mother in language and writing. She studied French and Russian at University of Oxford, and later found that she liked writing and began her writing career.
She is now a famous British children's novelist and has published many children's novels. The most famous of them is that she worked with her father to write a set of children's science fiction, the trilogy of George's universe, about a teenager named George, interested in science, and fighting against scientific parents and eventually growing into a scientist.
In this set of children's novels, both father and daughter have instilled the origin of the universe, the fate, the black hole and the big bang and other astronomical and physical knowledge, filled with children's language and exquisite illustrations.
American magazine "publisher weekly" has been called "children's version of a brief history of time". Many children have been interested in science because of this book. This book has been translated into 38 languages and published in 43 countries.
Besides Lucy, Hocking's two sons are also leaders of their respective industries. But compared to the two sons, they appear a lot of low-key, rarely appear before the media lens.
The eldest son of Robert Hocking, 50 years old this year, only one in three and succeeded his father in the science and technology development. Now he is an expert in software development of Microsoft headquarters.
Though not as great as earth's father in studying cosmology and black holes, he is also a senior engineer with many patents.
Kotimothy Hocking, Timothy Hawking, is 38 years old. As an elder sister, she is not interested in science, and is interested in literature and art. He graduated from Exeter University in England and studied French and Spanish. Now he is a brand development manager in Lego.
Timothy occasionally accompanied his father to attend the activity with his elder sister. In 2015, the British Academy of film awards, Hocking brought their brothers and sisters together.
As Hocking's son, their childhood life is not as easy as you might imagine. When he interviewed Timothy, he talked about how he got along with his father and Hocking when he was young. As the youngest child in the family, he actually had little communication with his father.
Hocking has been suffering from illness since he was 21 years old. Shortly after Timothy was born, Hocking's language function had been badly degraded, and before Hocking put up a voice synthesizer, he had almost no language communication with his father.
But father and son two still have some rare tender moments. As a child, Timothy was very interested in racing cars, sometimes jumping on Hocking's wheelchair, taking his father's wheelchair as a four drive car, and Hocking, who would be patient to explain all the knowledge about cars and machinery.
Compared to a carefree little brother, Robert's childhood is a bit heavy. From the age of 10, he helped her mother to take care of his sick father, Renlaorenyuan, share a lot of burden for the mother.
His mother, Jane, once wrote in his autobiography that he had had a very difficult time. Not only do we need to take care of our husbands at all times, but we also need to raise three brothers and sisters alone, who are under great pressure both mentally and physically.
Many times, she was almost close to the brink of collapse. It was Robert, the elder son, who gave her great comfort.