An ideal introduction (to Stephen Hawking)'- Independent'Astonishingly comprehensive - clearer than Hawking himself'- FocusStephen Hawking was a world-famous physicist with a cameo in The Simpsons on his CV,but outside of his academic field his work was little understood. To the public he was a tragic figure - a brilliant scientist and author of the 9 million-copy-selling A Brief History of Time,and yet spent the majority of his life confined to a wheelchair and almost completely paralysed.Hawking's major contribution to science was 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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Publisher: Icon BooksISBN: 9781848310940Weight: 168 gDimensions: 168 x 118 x 12 mmEdition: Revised edition
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'An ideal introduction''Astonishingly comprehensive - clearer than Hawking himself'
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