| Series |
Greenwood biographies, 1540-4900
Greenwood biographies. ^A691513
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| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2005011150 |
| ISBN | 0313323925 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780313323928 (alk. paper) |
