Stephen Hawking: A life in pictures - BBC News
The physicist, who battled motor neurone disease for most of his life, has died at the age of 76.
At the age of 22, he was diagnosed with a rare form of motor neurone disease. As he was preparing to marry his first wife Jane (pictured), doctors predicted he did not have long to live. They were married for 26 years and went on to have three children together.