Stephen Hawking's family and children to inherit £15m - Lucy, Timothy and Robert pay heartwarming tribute to their father

World-renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking - who has died - leaves three children.
Hawking, 76, died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday, March 14.
The scientist has three grown up children from his first marriage to university sweetheart Jane Wilde.
In a statement on Wednesday, his children, Lucy, Robert and Tim paid tribute to their father: "We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today.
"He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years.

"His courage and persistence with his brilliance and humor inspired people across the world.

"He once said, 'It would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love.' We will miss him forever."

According to The Richest website he is worth $20million which is a bout £15million from his books and science awards.
His children look set to inherit his millions, but who are they?

The 50 year old is a software engineer for Microsoft in America and is mentioned in a number of their patents.
As a child he helped to care for his father, with his mother saying: “He had to do things for his father that children really shouldn’t have to do."
He is married with two children and lives in Seattle.
In 2014 he took part in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on behalf of his father.

Lucy, 47, is a journalist turned author and writer for children.
In 2007 she published George's Secret Key to the Universe, an adventure story, written with her father, about a small boy called George who finds a way to slip through a computer generated portal and travel around the solar system.
It has been translated into 38 languages and published in 43 countries.
All of Lucy's children's books and articles center around the theme of teaching science and education to children.

ucy is divorced and has one son William, 20, who has been diagnosed with autism.
She studied French and Russian at Oxford University.
Lucy is vice president of the National Star College an institution dedicated to helping people with disabilities and is also a trustee of the Autism Research Trust .

The 38-year-old was born in April 1979 by which point his father's motor neurone disease had already effected his voice.
In a rare interview, he said he spent his earliest years unable to understand his father’s deteriorating speech.

He said: "My dad was able to speak with his own, natural voice for those first years, but it was incredibly difficult to understand what he was saying – particularly for me at such a young age."
As a child he would jump into his father’s wheelchair to use it as a go-kart – and programme swear words into the famous voice machine.