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Stephen Hawking - A Life Well Lived (Paperback)
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Stephen Hawking - A Life Well Lived (Paperback)
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In 1963 Stephen Hawking was given two years to live. Defying all
the odds, he died in March 2018 at age seventy-six as the most
celebrated scientist in the world. This carefully researched and
updated biography and tribute gives a rich picture of Hawking's
remarkable life - his childhood, the heart-rending beginning of his
struggle with motor neurone disease, his ever-increasing
international fame, and his long personal battle for survival in
pursuit of a scientific understanding of the universe. From more
recent years, Kitty Ferguson describes his inspiring leadership at
the London Paralympic Games, the release of the film The Theory of
Everything, his continuing work on black holes and the origin of
the universe, the discovery of 'supertranslations', and the
astounding 'Starshot' program. Here also are his intense concern
for the future of the Earth and his use of his celebrity to fight
for environmental and humanitarian causes, and, finally, a
ground-breaking paper he was working on at the time of his death,
in which he took issue with some of his own earlier theories.
Throughout, Ferguson summarizes and explains the cutting-edge
science in which Hawking was engaged and offers vivid first-hand
descriptions of his funeral in Cambridge and the interment of his
ashes in Westminster Abbey. This is an amazing and revealing
tribute, assessing Hawking's legacy in and out of science.
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