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Stephen Hawking : a biography
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- Creator
- Kristine Larsen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xix, 165 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780313323928, 0313323925
- OCLC
- ocm57692851
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-160) and index.
- 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