Leonard Leakey Hofstadter, is originally from New Jersey, and a graduate of Princeton University, Leonard works as a Caltech experimental physicist who shares an apartment with colleague Sheldon Cooper in Pasadena, California. All of the members of Leonard's family are accomplished scientists, except for his brother, who is a tenured law professor at Harvard Law School. Leonard's mother, Dr. Beverly Hofstadter, is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist. Due to his mother's views, Leonard never celebrated his birthday when he was a child. He built a "hugging machine" in order to compensate for the lack of affection from his mother. Leonard can also play the cello. Leonard owns, among other things, Star Wars hygiene products, an expansive Superman comic book collection (and wears Clark Kent-type glasses) and a Battlestar Galactica Colonial warrior's flight suit. Leonard's primary health concern is his lactose intolerance; he avoids eating even small amounts of dairy products, including cheese, yogurt, and butter, for fear of passing gas. Leonard also wears glasses because of myopia, and practically cannot see without them. Leonard has an IQ of 173, and was 24 years old when he received his Ph.D from Princeton University. Dr. Hofstadter received a dissertation of the year award for his doctoral paper on experimental particle physics.
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