Leonard Leakey Hofstadter [1] [2] , Ph. Now he and his wife Penny live in that apartment. Originally from New Jersey , Leonard attended Princeton University [3] and was twenty-four years old when he received his doctorate with a Dissertation of the Year award for experimental particle physics.
Having lived with Sheldon for 1 decade as of Season 6 , he and Leonard are best friends; however, Leonard can become very agitated by many of his eccentricities and often feels obligated to explain Sheldon's behavior and serve as a mediator between him and other people in situations β he's been described as the straight man of the series.
While Leonard, along with his geek friends and fellow scientists , is somewhat socially inept, Leonard would like to be better accepted outside of The Social Group. Leonard is better-adjusted than his companions, being more willing to try different things. He appears to be best suited as a leader of the group, with Sheldon commenting how Leonard is the "Captain Kirk " of their landing party. The romance between him and neighbor Penny , with their on-and-off relationship has been the major force for drama until Shamy started.
Helens' erupted and "The Empire Strikes Back" came out. Not much is known about his early life. He has two siblings: a younger brother named Michael and an elder sister whose name we don't know " The Maternal Capacitance ", S2E He says that his brother was mean to him which probably means he has a bad relationship with him.
At age five, Leonard dressed up as The Hulk, using his mother's make-up and made-up muscles balloon muscles with a bra of his mother's to stop them from sagging. He had dressed up as The Hulk cause he was always mad at his mom and he wanted to smash his way out of the house. At age six, he walked in on his mother and father naked. She was swatting his father's bottom with Leonard's brand new ping-pong paddle and Leonard thought it was a dream until years later " The Raiders Minimization ", S7E4.
