
Introducing Stephen Hawking
'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.
- Undertitel
- A Graphic Guide
- Författare
- J.P. McEvoy
- Illustratörer
- Oscar Zarate
- Upplaga
- Revised edition
- ISBN
- 9781848310940
- Språk
- Engelska
- Vikt
- 168 gram
- Serie
- Introducing...
- Utgivningsdatum
- 2009-10-01
- Förlag
- ICON BOOKS
- Sidor
- 176
