Introducing Stephen Hawking: A Graphic Guide

di J.P. McEvoy (Autore)

Oscar Zarate (Illustratore)

Icon Books, 2009

'An ideal introduction [to Stephen Hawking]' - Independent 'Astonishingly comprehensive - clearer than Hawking himself' - Focus Stephen Hawking was a world-famous physicist with a cameo in The Simpsons on his CV, but outside of his academic field his work was little understood. To the public he was a tragic figure - a brilliant scientist and author of the 9 million-copy-selling A Brief History of Time, and yet spent the majority of his life confined to a wheelchair and almost completely paralysed. Hawking's major contribution to science was 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.

• Autore: J.P. McEvoy
• Illustratore: Oscar Zarate
• Editore: Icon Books
• Collana: Introducing...
• Anno: 2009
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 176 p.
• Dimensioni: 168 x 118 mm
• Peso: 168 gr.
• EAN: 9781848310940

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