3-minute Stephen Hawking
Subtitle: digesting his life, theories and influence in 3-minute morsels
By: Paul Parsons & Gail Nixon ; foreword by John Gribbin
Contributors: Nixon, Gail
Publisher: Apple
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781845434793
Subjects: Physicists; Biography
Other titles: Stephen Hawking; Three minute Stephen Hawking
Description: Stephen Hawking is the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. He is possibly the greatest living scientific genius but also a highly successful author who has revealed the most tricky of topics to ordinary minds, and a vocal campaigner of social and political issues, including the rights of disabled people. 3-Minute Stephen Hawking is the instant introduction to this exceptional genius. His intellect and enthusiasm undimmed by the motor neurone disease that hampers his body, his work on gravitational singularities (black holes), the nature of time, and the attempt to reconcile quantum mechanics with Einstein's general relativity is genuinely brain-bending.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 158) and index.