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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.

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- a brilliant scientist & author of the 9 million-copy-selling "A Brief History of Time", & yet confined to a wheelchair & almost completely paralysed.

Hawkings major contribution to science has been to integrate the two great theories of 20th-century physics
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• ISBN: 9781848310940
• Author: J.P. Mc Evoy & Oscar Zarate
• Publisher: Icon Books
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 176
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Stephen Hawking - His Life And Work

In 1963 Stephen Hawking was given a couple of years to live. In January 2017 he celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday.

This biography of the brilliant theoretical physicist and inspirational international celebrity, written with the help of

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In 1963 Stephen Hawking was given a couple of years to live. In January 2017 he celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday.

This biography of the brilliant theoretical physicist & inspirational international celebrity, written with the help of Hawking himself & his close associates.


Includes::
• His leadership at the London Paralympic Games
• The release of the film about his life The Theory of Everything
• His BBC Reith Lectures in 2016
• His continuing work on black holes, gravitational waves, the new discovery of “supertranslations”
• The launch of the astounding “ Starshot” programme
• The first presentation of the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication at Starmus III in June 2016.

Written with the clarity & simplicity for which all Kitty Fergusons books have been praised, it is a captivating account of an extraordinary life & mind.

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• ISBN: 9780857503671
• Author: Kitty Ferguson
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 573
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 4cm

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