An accessible biography on the life and work of one of the most famous and influential scientists of the last forty years, Stephen Hawking.
Destiny's Child: An Auspicious Birth and Eclectic Childhood Scientist in Training: The Road to Oxford Tragedy and Triumph: Dissertation and Deadly Disease Children and Calculations: Family Man and Theoretician "Stephen's Changed Everything": Black Holes Aren't Black Caltech and Cambridge: Exploring New Horizons Einstein's Legacy: Quantum Gravity Physics or Metaphysics: The "No Boundary" Proposal In a Different Voice: Computers to the Rescue "The Best Selling Book No One Read": A Brief History of Time Endings and Beginnings: Marriages Die, Universes are Born To Boldly Go: Hollywood Calls Brains, Branes, and Stringy Black Holes: Zeroing in on the Theory of Everything Larger than Life: Scientist as Icon
Kristine Larsen is Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Central Connecticut State University.
[T]he story of his life…. is told with sympathy, and skilfully
interwoven with the developments in Hawking's pioneering theories
in cosmology, black holes in particular, and the search for the
theory of everything… [A]n intriguing work. Early in her book, the
author says that Hawking does not like biographies, so would
probably not read this one. Want a bet?
*Gnomon*
In an elegant, pristine universe black holes are decidedly messy.
Apprentice physicists may try to sweep them under the cosmic carpet
and hope no one notices the lump. The masters, like Hawking, relish
the messy bits, the structure of space-time, the no-boundary
concept, the baby universe. Larsen makes such messy bits, and
Hawking's expertise in straightening them out, accessible to
general readers and sets the concepts within the framework of
Hawking's career and personal life. As a result, along with
explanations of the theory of everything we learn why Hawking turns
up so much in the media as one of the greatest and certainly one of
the most easily described physicists on the planet.
*SciTech Book News*
His devilishly complex cosmological theories are handled engagingly
in accessible language for the lay reader. [T]his is a touching
portrait that will grace any bookshelf.
*Astronomy Now*
[T]his is a well-written introduction to Hawking and his work that
is worth having.
*SB&F*
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