Stephen Hawking
Subtitle: Breaking the Boundaries of Time and Space
By: by John Bankston.
Series: Great Minds of Science
Publisher: Enslow Publishers; Enslow Pub Inc
Published: February 2005
Place of publication: Berkeley Heights, NJ
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780766022812
Subjects: Great Britain; Juvenile Science (General); Children: Grades 4-6; Physicists; Juvenile Nonfiction; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography; Hawking, S. W; Cosmology; Biography & Autobiography - General; Biography; Juvenile literature; Science & Nature - Physics; Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology; (Stephen W.); Big bang theory
Description: Stephen Hawking is the most important theoretical physicist since Einstein. Best known for his work on black holes, Hawking continues to work on combining quantum mechanics and gravity in a single theory that would explain the origin and structure of the universe.  He continues his work despite living with ALS—a condition that makes even the most basic of tasks difficult.  In this latest title in the Great Minds of Science series, the life and work of this scientific genius is examined and explained.
Table of contents: title: A Lucky Man; title: Controversy; title: A Lazy Student?; title: Cosmic Eggs and Big Bangs; title: The Beginning of Time; title: The Big and the Small of It; title: Black Holes and White Dwarfs; title: A New Beginning; title: The Brief History