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The day Galileo died -- Classical cosmology -- Going up -- Doctors and doctorates -- From black holes to the big bang -- Marriage and fellowship -- Singular solutions -- The breakthrough years -- When black holes explode -- The foothills of fame -- Back to the beginning -- Science celebrity -- When the universe has babies -- A brief history of time -- The end of physics? -- Hollywood, fame and fortune -- A brief history of time travel -- Stephen Hawking, superstar. Stephen Hawking is no ordinary scientist. With a career at Cambridge University, he has managed to broaden our basic understanding of the universe. Originally published in 1992, this edition traces the course of Hawking's life and science, combining biography and physics to tell the story of this remarkable man. |
