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    Introducing Stephen Hawking: A Graphic Guide

    By J. P. McEvoy and Oscar Zarate

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIcon Books
    Release dateJun 5, 2014
    ISBN9781848317772
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    Introducing Stephen Hawking: A Graphic Guide
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    J. P. McEvoy

    J P McEvoy was born in the USA. He has published over 50 papers on his specialist subject, superconductivity. He has been involved in improving public understanding of science for many years. He wrote the TV series Eureka, describing great moments in science from Archimedes to the present. In addition to journalism and radio broadcasting, he has written two guides in the ‘Begginers’ series for Icon Books.

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