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A Graphic Guide
J.P. McEvoy
ISBN: 9781848310940
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Icon Books Ltd
Edition: Revised edition
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Stephen Hawking is the world-famous physicist. 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 paralysed. This guide explores Hawking's life, and the evolution of his work from his days as a student.
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 paralysed. 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.
| ISBN | 1848310943 | | Pages | 176 | | ISBN13 | 9781848310940
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 168 | | Publisher | Icon Books Ltd | | Published in | Duxford | | Imprint | Icon Books Ltd | | Series title | Introducing... | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9781840466393 | | Publication date | 01 Oct 2009 | | Height (mm) | 168 | | Illustrator | Oscar Zarate | | Width (mm) | 118 | | DEWEY | 520.92 | | Spine width (mm) | 12 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General |
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