Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science:Second Edition (Penguin Press Science)

by Michael White (Author), Michael White (Author), John Gribbin (Author), Michael White (Author), Michael White (Author)

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  Paperback
  1998

  $3.45

  The new edition of this bestselling biography of Stephen Hawking includes two additional chapters. In the first, John Gribbin explores important and exciting new developments in the field of time travel, Stephen Hawking's latest area of research, while in the second, Michael White takes a more personal look at Hawking's life in recent years and his role as a celebrity. Well-nigh unputdownable...[It] ought to be read alongside A Brief History of Time as a kind of explanatory supplement - Heather Couper, The Times Educational Supplement A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein - Bernard Dixon, New Statesman & Society

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  Paperback
  1992

  $3.45

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $18.69

  Born in 1942, Stephen Hawking is no ordinary scientist. With a career that began over thirty years ago at Cambridge University, he has managed to do more than perhaps any other physicist to broaden our basic understanding of the universe. This skilful portrait of an indefatigable genius traces the course of Hawking's life and science, marrying biography and physics to tell the story of a remarkable man. As the New Stateman said of the first edition in 1992: 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein...Its combination of erudition, warmth, robustness, and wit is entirely appropriate to their subject.