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v. t. e. Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. [ 6][ 17][ 18] Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge ...
Following the death of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking in March 2018, the Latin American news site teleSUR reposted a photograph from the National Portrait Gallery collections on their Facebook page, purporting to show him leading a VSC demonstration alongside Ali and Vanessa Redgrave in March 1968.
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes is a book on theoretical cosmology by the physicist Stephen Hawking. It was first published in 1988. Hawking wrote the book for readers who had no prior knowledge of physics. In A Brief History of Time, Hawking writes in non-technical terms about the structure, origin, development and ...
ISBN. 9780345535283. Preceded by. The Dreams That Stuff is Made of. My Brief History is a memoir published in 2013 by the English physicist Stephen Hawking. The book recounts Hawking's journey from his post-war London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. [1]
The Grand Design is a popular-science book written by physicists Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow and published by Bantam Books in 2010. The book examines the history of scientific knowledge about the universe and explains eleven-dimensional M-theory. The authors of the book point out that a Unified Field Theory (a theory, based on an early ...
Gibbons–Hawking effect, named after Gary Gibbons and Hawking, is the statement that a temperature can be associated to each solution of the Einstein field equations under certain conditions. Gibbons–Hawking space, named after Gary Gibbons and Hawking, a concept in algebraic geometry. Hartle–Hawking state and Hartle–Hawking function, a ...
OCLC. 50632825. Preceded by. The Universe in a Nutshell. Followed by. A Briefer History of Time. On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy is a compilation of scientific texts edited and with commentary by the British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. [1] The book was published by Running Press in 2002.
1997. ( 1997) Stephen Hawking's Universe is an astronomical documentary from 1997 made for the PBS featuring the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. The six-episode series discusses the history of astronomy as well as black holes and dark matter .