Stephen Hawking, one of the world's best-known physicists, has left behind 16.3 million pounds in a will which he signed with a thumbprint due to his motor neuron disease.
Hawking, who died in Cambridge aged 76 in 2018, put the large fortune in a trust fund for his three children and three grandchildren and also bequeathed 10,000 pounds to his loyal personal assistant Judith Croasdell, 71, according to a report in The Sun' newspaper.
A legal note to go with the will notes: "Signed with his 'mark' because although able to read the will he is prevented by physical disability from signing it."
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