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| Named Person: | S W Hawking |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kristine M Larsen |
| ISBN: | 0313323925 9780313323928 |
| OCLC Number: | 57692851 |
| Description: | xix, 165 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Destiny's child: an auspicious birth and eclectic upbringing -- Scientist in training: the Oxford years -- Tragedy and triumph: deadly disease and dissertation -- Children and calculations: family man and theoretician -- "Stephen's changed everything": black holes aren't black -- CalTech and Cambridge: exploring new horizons -- Physics or metaphysics? the "no-boundary" proposal -- Challenges and controversy: an unexpected silence and time's arrows -- The best selling book that "no one read": a brief history of time -- To boldly go: time travel and television -- Plays, p-branes, and polls: private lives and public pronouncements -- Books and bets: the universe in a nutshell and the end of a paradox -- Stephen Hawking: man vs. myth. |
| Series Title: | Greenwood biographies |
| Responsibility: | Kristine Larsen. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
An accessible biography on the life and work of one of the most famous and influential scientists of the last forty years, Stephen Hawking.
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