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Introducing Stephen Hawking: A Graphic Guide

By Oscar Zarate , J. P. McEvoy

Book information

Publisher
Icon Books
Year
2005
ISBN
1848310943, 9781848310940
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
34 MB (35729274 bytes)
Edition
Fourth Edition
Pages
176\0
Time added
2015-03-21 18:19:52

Description

Stephen Hawking is the world-famous physicist with a cameo in "The Simpsons on his CV", but outside his academic field his work is little understood. To the public he is a tragic figure - a brilliant scientist and author of the 9 million-copy-selling "A Brief History of Time", and yet confined to a wheelchair and almost completely paralysed. Hawking's major contribution to science has been to integrate the two great theories of 20th-century physics - Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. J.P. McEvoy and Oscar Zarate's brilliant graphic guide explores Hawking's life, the evolution of his work from his days as a student, and his breathtaking discoveries about where these fundamental laws break down or overlap, such as on the edge of a Black Hole or at the origin of the Universe itself.

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