Stephen Hawking: Stephen Hawking lived in a Victorian villa on this Cambridge site and wrote A Brief History of Time there; the house was later replaced by a building named after him |
The Stephen Hawking Building. Credit: Dan White/ Gonville and Caius Stephen Hawking spent an important period of his life at a Victorian villa at 5 West Road, Cambridge, a property owned by Gonville & Caius College. Hawking and his first wife, Jane, moved there with their children in 1975, after the stairs at their previous…