Stephen Hawking: A Life Well LivedRandom House, 2011 M11 10 - 704 pages 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. |
Contents
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The realization that I had an incurable disease | 42 |
The big question was was there a beginning or not? | 57 |
There is a singularity in our past | 76 |
These people must think we are used to | 97 |
Scientists usually assume there is a unique link | 114 |
The odds against a universe that has produced | 131 |
In all my travels I have not managed to fall | 148 |
Between film roles I enjoy solving physics | 220 |
both Armageddon and a new Dark Age | 239 |
It seems clear to me | 252 |
An expanding horizon of possibilities | 269 |
Grandad has wheels | 286 |
direction | 304 |
physicist cosmologist | 322 |
Glossary | 351 |
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