Stephen hawking jane wilde divorce - Stephen Hawking's wife Jane Wilde on their marriage breakdown: 'The family were left behind'

Though his children issued a statement, his ex-wife, Jane Wilde, did not immediately speak out.

Despite suggestions that he might leave the United Kingdom as a protest against public funding cuts to basic scientific research, Hawking worked as director of research at the Cambridge University Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

Hawking accepted, and travelled with them as the first of many students who fulfilled this role.

He additionally showed up on television amid this period in documentaries like—'The Genuine Stephen Peddling 2001 ', 'Stephen Peddling: Profile 2002 ', 'Offering 2004 ', 'Stephen Selling, Ace of the Universe 2008 ', et cetera.

If anything, it inspired him to do even more.

The couple divorced in 2006 after Hawking fell for another nurse, Diana King, who was 39 years younger than the physicist and suffered from manic depression… something Hawking seemed to like.