Stephen Hawking - A Life in Science, [A brilliant scientist already established at the cutting edge of theoretical physics, he did more than anyone to push back our understanding of the universe, with his book A Brief History of Time notching up worldwide sales in the millions because of his ability to communicate his esoteric theories directly to the lay-reader. Completely paralysed, apart from the two fingers which operate his computer voice-box, he has been described as 'Einstein's heir', 'the greatest genius of the late twentieth century' and this is how his biographers write of him, as a man for whom science and life are inextricably linked.],

White, Michael, and John Gribbin,

ISBN 10: 0670840130 / ISBN 13: 9780670840137

Edité par a Viking Book, published by the Penguin Group, Londin, 1992,, 1992

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first edition, large paperback, xi,304pp, portrait-illustrated card covers, as new.

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• Titre: Stephen Hawking - A Life in Science, [A brilliant scientist already established at the cutting edge of theoretical physics, he did more than anyone to push back our understanding of the universe, with his book A Brief History of Time notching up worldwide sales in the millions because of his ability to communicate his esoteric theories directly to the lay-reader. Completely paralysed, apart from the two fingers which operate his computer voice-box, he has been described as 'Einstein's heir', '...
• Éditeur: a Viking Book, published by the Penguin Group, Londin, 1992,
• Date de parution: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0670840130
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780670840137
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: see description

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Synopsis

The authors tell the story of Hawking's life and work, his childhood and early scientific promise at school, his days at Oxford, his marriage and the early signs of disease, through to his professorship at Cambridge, the success of "A Brief History of Time" and the break-up of his marriage.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Born in 1942, Stephen Hawking is no ordinary scientist. With a career that began over thirty years ago at Cambridge University, he has managed to do more than perhaps any other physicist to broaden our basic understanding of the universe. This skilful portrait of an indefatigable genius traces the course of Hawking's life and science, marrying biography and physics to tell the story of a remarkable man.

As the New Stateman said of the first edition in 1992: 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein...Its combination of erudition, warmth, robustness, and wit is entirely appropriate to their subject.