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Introducing Stephen Hawking

A Graphic Guide

JP McEvoy author Oscar Zarate illustrator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Icon Books

Published:1st Oct '09

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'An ideal introduction [to Stephen Hawking]' - Independent
'Astonishingly comprehensive - clearer than Hawking himself' - Focus
Stephen 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.

'An ideal introduction' -- Independent
'Astonishingly comprehensive - clearer than Hawking himself' -- Focus

ISBN: 9781848310940

Dimensions: 168mm x 118mm x 12mm

Weight: 168g

176 pages

Revised edition