1. Lucy Hawking is the daughter of the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and writer Jane Wilde Hawking.
12 Facts About Lucy Hawking
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Lucy Hawking lives in London, and is a children's novelist and science educator.
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Lucy Hawking has two brothers, Robert and Timothy Hawking, and was raised in Cambridge after a few years spent in Pasadena, California, as a child.
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Lucy Hawking studied French and Russian at the University of Oxford.
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Lucy Hawking wrote for New York magazine, the Daily Mail, The Telegraph, The Times, the London Evening Standard, and The Guardian.
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Lucy Hawking took interest in this topic after witnessing one of her son's friends ask her father about black holes at a party.
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Lucy Hawking responded by telling him he'd "turn into spaghetti", and the boy was delighted with that answer.
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In 2013, Lucy Hawking spoke at the BrainSTEM: Your Future is Now festival at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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In March 2017, Lucy Hawking was invited to speak at the Emirates Airline Festival in Dubai.
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Lucy Hawking is vice president of the National Star College, an institution dedicated to allowing people with disabilities to realise their potential through personalised learning, transition and lifestyle services, a foundation which provides care and education for young adults with complex and multiple disabilities.
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Lucy Hawking is a trustee of the Autism Research Trust.
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Lucy Hawking has a son who has autism and has influenced her support for people on the autistic spectrum.