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Stephen Hawking : a life in science
- Title
- Stephen Hawking : a life in science / Michael White and John Gribbin.
- Author
- White, Michael, 1959-2018
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, ©2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | QC16.H33 W45 2002 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Gribbin, John, 1946-
- Description
- xi, 348 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- Stephen Hawking is no ordinary scientist. With a career at Cambridge University, he has managed to broaden our basic understanding of the universe. Originally published in 1992, this edition traces the course of Hawking's life and science, combining biography and physics to tell the story of this remarkable man.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 322-328) and index.
- Contents
- The day Galileo died -- Classical cosmology -- Going up -- Doctors and doctorates -- From black holes to the big bang -- Marriage and fellowship -- Singular solutions -- The breakthrough years -- When black holes explode -- The foothills of fame -- Back to the beginning -- Science celebrity -- When the universe has babies -- A brief history of time -- The end of physics? -- Hollywood, fame, and fortune -- A brief history of time travel -- Stephen Hawking : superstar.
- ISBN
- 0309084105
- 9780309084109
- LCCN
- 2002011961
- 99805457306
- OCLC
- ocm50285034
- 50285034
- SCSB-1268019
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library