Hofstadter family

Leonard's family:

• Father - anthropologist

• Mother Beverly - neuroscientist and psychiatrist

• Older sister - working toward a cure for diabetes

• Younger brother Michael - tenured professor at Harvard Law School

• Uncle Floyd - deceased since early 2009 (0215)

• Five more uncles (0202) who are all bald.

• Aunt Edna, described as "one of the hairiest women you'll ever meet" (0202)

Leonard's father and mother live in New Jersey (0211), probably associated with Princeton University (0215). They divorced in 2009 (0311). Leonard had a dog, Mitzi, who died in 2009 (0311).

Family name:

"Leonard's last name, Hofstadter, refers to two well-known scientists: Robert Hofstadter, the 1961 Nobel Laureate in Physics, and his son Douglas Hofstadter, who researches consciousness and cognition and whose best-selling book about philosophy, mathematics, puzzles, art, and music, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, was published in 1979 and won him the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction." (Quoted from IMDb).