Introducing Stephen Hawking : A Graphic Guide Paperback / softback
by J.P. McEvoy
Illustrated by Oscar Zarate
Part of the Introducing... series
Paperback / softback
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'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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages, Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Icon Books
- Publication Date:01/10/2009
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- ISBN:9781848310940
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages, Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Icon Books
- Publication Date:01/10/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9781848310940