Stephen Hawking
Subtitle: a life in science
By: Michael White and John Gribbin
Contributors: Gribbin, John, 1946- author
Edition: Revised and updated edition; first Pegasus Books edition.
Publisher: Pegasus Books LLC
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9781605989402
Subjects: Astrophysics; Physicists; Biography; Astrophysique
Description: "An updated edition of the definitive biography on Stephen Hawking that marries biography and science to tell the story of one of the most remarkable men in history. Stephen Hawking is no ordinary scientist. He has broadened our basic understanding of the universe and his theoretical work on black holes and the origins of the cosmos have been groundbreaking, if not downright revolutionary. He has also spent much of his adult life confined to a wheelchair, a victim of ALS. But his physical limitations have done nothing to confine him intellectually. Hawking would already be remarkable for his cutting-edge work in theoretical physics alone. However, he has also managed to popularize science unlike anyone else. He achieved almost cult-like fame with his A Brief History of Time and has since become a household name by making the complexities of cosmology accessible to millions of people. In Stephen Hawking, science writers White and Gribbin have painted a compelling portrait of a scientific mind that seemingly knows no bounds..." --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-430) and index.
Table of contents: title: The day Galileo died; title: Classical cosmology; title: Going up; title: Doctors and doctorates; title: From black holes to the big bang; title: Marriage and fellowship; title: Singular solutions; title: The breakthrough years; title: When black holes explode; title: The foothills of fame; title: Back to the beginning; title: Science celebrity; title: When the universe has babies; title: A brief history of time; title: The end of physics?; title: Fame and fortune; title: A brief history of time travel; title: Stephen Hawking : superstar; title: God and the multiverse; title: The topsy-turvy universe of a global icon.