Introducing Stephen Hawking: A Graphic Guide

ISBN-13: 9781848310940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 176 str.

J.P. McEvoy

Opis

Stephen Hawking is the world-famous physicist with a cameo in "The Simpsons on his CV," but outside his academic field his work is little understood. To the public he is a tragic figure - a brilliant scientist and author of the 9 million-copy-selling "A Brief History of Time," and yet confined to a wheelchair and almost completely paralyzed. Hawking's major contribution to science has been 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.