Leonard and sheldon are both named after the famed tv producer and actor sheldon leonard Leonard gets his middle name from professor louis leakey Leonard's last name is in honor of nobel prize winning physicist robert hofstadter, who worked at stanford university in the field of nuclear. Cbs) leonard leakey hofstadter aka dr Leonard hofstadter is one of the main protagonists of the show the big bang theory He is an experimental physicist at caltech who shares an apartment with his colleague and best friend, sheldon cooper (played by jim parsons)
Michael hofstadter (younger brother — professor at harvard), unnamed sister (researcher growing a pancreas in a gibbon hoping to cure diabetes), unnamed father (anthropologist), beverly hofstadter (mother, psychiatrist and neuroscientist), unnamed grandmother with alzheimer’s, floyd (uncle, deceased. For 12 years, leonard hofstadter was the backbone of the big bang theory and the glue that brought the group together Johnny galecki brought the character to life and transformed him from a nerd.
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