Bibliograph

Stephen Hawking, a biography, Kristine Larsen

Type

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Stephen Hawking, a biography, Kristine Larsen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-160) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Stephen Hawking

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

57692851

Responsibility statement

Kristine Larsen

Series statement

Greenwood biographies,, 1540-4900

Sub title

a biography

Table Of Contents

Destiny's child: an auspicious birth and eclectic upbringing -- Scientist in training: the Oxford years -- Tragedy and triumph: deadly disease and dissertation -- Children and calculations: family man and theoretician -- "Stephen's changed everything": black holes aren't black -- CalTech and Cambridge: exploring new horizons -- Physics or metaphysics? the "no-boundary" proposal -- Challenges and controversy: an unexpected silence and time's arrows -- The best selling book that "no one read": a brief history of time -- To boldly go: time travel and television -- Plays, p-branes, and polls: private lives and public pronouncements -- Books and bets: the universe in a nutshell and the end of a paradox -- Stephen Hawking: man vs. myth

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