Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science - Tapa blanda

A successful merger of biography and physics.

Intriguing. There are large questions here than the life of even this singular man.

The forces shaping the life of renowned physicist Hawking seem as strangely charged as those he describes in his physics. White and Gribbin ably fill in the spaces between his great leaps of theory.

Immensely moving. A totally gripping read.

White and Gribbin have produced a definitive biography of arguably the best-known cosmologist in the world. A fascinating story.

Stephen Hawking is no ordinary scientist. He has broadened our basic understanding of the universe and his theoretical work on black holes and the origins of the cosmos have been groundbreaking, if not downright revolutionary. He has also spent much of his adult life confined to a wheelchair, a victim of ALS. But his physical limitations have done nothing to confine him intellectually.Hawking would already be remarkable for his cutting-edge work in theoretical physics alone. However, he has also managed to popularize science unlike anyone else. He achieved almost cult-like fame with his A Brief History of Time and has since become a household name by making the complexities of cosmology accessible to millions of people.In Stephen Hawking, science writers White and Gribbin have painted a compelling portrait of a scientific mind that seemingly knows no bounds. Weaving together clear explanations of Hawking’s science with a detailed, balanced, and sensitive personal history, readers will come to know and appreciate both sides of this incredible man.Includes new updates in Hawking’s biography and the recent discovery of the Higgs-Boson (or “God”) particle.