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Stephen Hawking (1942–2018)

Autor(a) de A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

179+ Works 47,108 Membros 632 Críticas 77 Favorited

About the Author

Stephen William Hawking was born in Oxford, England on January 8, 1942. He received a first class honors degree in natural science from Oxford University and a Ph.D. from Cambridge University. He was a theoretical physicist and has held the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge mostrar mais University from 1982 until his death. In 1974, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the world's oldest scientific organization. In 1963, he learned he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neuromuscular wasting disease also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. The disease confined him to a wheelchair and reduced his bodily control to the flexing of a finger and voluntary eye movements, but left his mental faculties untouched. He became a leader in exploring gravity and the properties of black holes. He wrote numerous books including A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, Black Holes and Baby Universes, On the Shoulders of Giants, A Briefer History of Time, The Universe in a Nutshell, The Grand Design, and Brief Answers to the Big Questions. In 1982, he was named a commander of the British Empire. A film about his life, The Theory of Everything, was released in 2014 and was based on his first wife Jane Hawking's book Traveling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen. He died on March 14, 2018 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Stephen Hawking

A Brief History of Time (1998) 6,761 exemplares
The Universe in a Nutshell (2001) 4,721 exemplares
The Grand Design (2010) 3,269 exemplares
A Briefer History of Time (2005) 2,569 exemplares
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (2018) 1,670 exemplares
George's Secret Key to the Universe (2007) — Autor — 1,278 exemplares
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy (2002) — Editor; Contribuidor — 1,190 exemplares
The Nature of Space and Time (1996) 721 exemplares
My Brief History (2013) 517 exemplares
George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt (2009) 431 exemplares
The Future of Spacetime (2002) — Contribuidor — 270 exemplares
George and the Big Bang (2011) 224 exemplares
Black Holes: The Reith Lectures (2013) 167 exemplares
Three Hundred Years of Gravitation (1987) — Editor — 57 exemplares
Unlocking the Universe (2020) 55 exemplares
Stephen Hawking's Universe (1997) 29 exemplares
Masters of Science Fiction (2010) 14 exemplares
Büyük Sorulara Kisa Yanitlar (2019) 10 exemplares
Het heelal (1998) 5 exemplares
Theories of the Universe (1996) 5 exemplares
Mijn kleine geschiedenis (2014) 5 exemplares
O Grande Projeto (2013) 5 exemplares
Was sind Raum und Zeit? (2021) 5 exemplares
Korte svar på store spørsmål (2018) 3 exemplares
O fim da física (1994) 3 exemplares
Historia del tiempo (1988) 3 exemplares
O Grande Desígnio (2011) 2 exemplares
Das All! (2005) 2 exemplares
Über das Universum 2 exemplares
Mesterværket (2017) 2 exemplares
Will We Survive on Earth? (2022) 2 exemplares
Czarne dziury (2016) 2 exemplares
You and the Universe (2024) 2 exemplares
Saga Tímans 2 exemplares
Dal Big Bang ai buchi neri (1992) 2 exemplares
The Quotable Hawking (2017) 2 exemplares
Predecir el futuro (1994) 1 exemplar
Plongée dans l'univers (2022) 1 exemplar
Illustrated/Brief Pp (1996) 1 exemplar
Stephen Hawking 1 exemplar
Saga timans 1 exemplar
時間簡史 1 exemplar
La Gran Ilusion (2013) 1 exemplar
Astronomia 1 exemplar
Vida en el universo (1998) 1 exemplar
Genius (DVD) (2016) 1 exemplar
The Super-Universe 1 exemplar
Perché l'universo? (2018) 1 exemplar
Minu lühiajalugu (2014) 1 exemplar
時間簡史 (1990) 1 exemplar
Benim Kisa Tarihim (2015) 1 exemplar
Caça ao Tesouro no Espaço (2016) 1 exemplar
2018 1 exemplar
2002 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Physics of Star Trek (1995) — Prefácio, algumas edições1,949 exemplares
Black Holes and Time Warps : Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (1994) — Prefácio — 1,303 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing (2008) — Contribuidor — 803 exemplares
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (1638) — Editor, algumas edições533 exemplares
Stephen Hawking's Universe: The Cosmos Explained (1997) — Prefácio — 426 exemplares
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind (1997) — Contribuidor — 425 exemplares
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011 (2011) — Contribuidor — 287 exemplares
Cosmology + 1 (1977) — Contribuidor — 117 exemplares
Harmonies of the World (1619) — Editor, algumas edições115 exemplares
New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything (2016) — Introdução — 101 exemplares
The Simpsons: Season 10 (2007) — Guest star — 85 exemplares
Paul Dirac: The Man and his Work (1656) — Contribuidor — 59 exemplares
A Brief History of Time [1991 documentary film] (1991) — Artist — 46 exemplares
Apollo: Through the Eyes of the Astronauts (2009) — Prefácio — 41 exemplares
Cosmos: Images from Here to the Edge of the Universe (2005) — Prefácio — 40 exemplares
Starship Century: Toward the Grandest Horizon (2013) — Contribuidor — 35 exemplares
Alien Planet [2005 TV movie] (2005) — Self — 12 exemplares
La solidaritat no degenera (2013) — Autor — 10 exemplares
Playboy Magazine ~ April 1990 (Deborah Driggs) (1990) — Interview — 2 exemplares

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Very quick tour through the mind of an iconic inspiring scientist. Not a perfect book and perfect because of this, as it shows how he goes about thinking of things.

The enigmatic puzzle pages in the middle i could not solve and just seem like gimmicks.
 
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yates9 | 34 outras críticas | Feb 28, 2024 |
Immediate buy at a library sale, interesting topics and fun to look up what has been discovered since the publish date 1988 and compare. Some diagram captions I had to laugh at - "WORLD-SHEET OF TWO OPEN STRINGS JOINING"
 
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lneukirch | 122 outras críticas | Feb 4, 2024 |

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Kip S. Thorne Contributor, Introduction
Lucy Hawking Afterword
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Igor Novikov Contributor
Alan Lightman Contributor
Timothy Ferris Contributor

Estatísticas

Obras
179
Also by
25
Membros
47,108
Popularidade
#336
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
632
ISBN
1,038
Línguas
39
Marcado como favorito
77

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