An edition of Stephen Hawking
(1991)
Stephen Hawking
his life and work
Rev. and updated ed.
by Kitty Ferguson
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" ... Twenty years ago, Kitty Ferguson's Stephen Hawking; Quest for a Theory of Everything became a ... bestseller. She now returns to transform that ... book into a ... biography, giving a rich picture of Hawking's childhood, the ... beginning of his struggle with motor neurone disease when he was a first-year graduate student, his ever-increasing international fame, and his long personal battle for survival in pursuit of a scientific understanding of the universe. ..."--Jacket.
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Cosmology, People with disabilities, Physicists, Juvenile literature, Biography, Physically handicapped, Hawking, S. W. (Stephen W.), Universe, Physicists, biography, Great britain, biography, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Hawking, s. w. (stephen w.), 1942-2018, PhysicsPeople
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Table of Contents
Part one: 1942-1975 (1. 'The quest for a theory of everything' ; 2. 'Our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in' ; 3. 'Equal to anything!' ; 4. 'The realization that I had an inhcurable disease, that was likely to kill me in a few years, was a bit of a shock' ; 5. 'The big question was, was there a beginning or not?' ; 6. 'There is a singularity in our past')
Part two: 1970-1990 (7. 'These people must think we are used to an astronomical standard of living' ; 8. 'Scientists usually assume there is a unique link between the past and the future, cause and effect. If information is lost, this link does not exist' ; 9. 'The odds against a universe that has produced life like ours are immense' ; 10. 'In all my travels, I have not managed to fall off the edage of the world' ; 11. It's turtles all the way down' ; 12. 'The field of baby universes is in its infancy')
Part three: 1990-2000 (13. 'Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?' ; 14. 'Between film roles I enjoy solving physics problems' ; 15. I think we have a good chance of avoiding both Armageddon and a new Dark Age' ; 16. It seems clear to me')
Part four: 2000-2011 (17. 'An expanding horizon of possibilities' ; 18. 'Grandad has wheels' ; 19. 'I've always gone in a somewhat different direction' ; 20. 'My name is Stephen Hawking: physicist, cosmologist and something of a dreamer').
Edition Notes
Previous edition: 1992.
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"In Cambridge, England, there is an old narrow street called Free School Lane."
Work Description
Presents the life of the British theoretical physicist who has taken the study of cosmology farther than most in his field, despite the need for a wheelchair and computer in order to travel and communicate.
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