Introducing Stephen Hawking
A Graphic Guide
Comics & Graphic Novels, Non-Fiction, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Physics, General Physics
| Author: | J.P. McEvoy | ISBN: | 9781848317772 |
| Publisher: | Icon Books Ltd | Publication: | June 5, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Icon Books Ltd | Language: | English |
| Author: | J.P. McEvoy |
| ISBN: | 9781848317772 |
| Publisher: | Icon Books Ltd |
| Publication: | June 5, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Icon Books Ltd |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
