Categorii: Neclasificate
Limba: Engleza
Data publicării: 2009
Editura: Icon Books
Tip copertă: Paperback
Nr Pag: 176
Colectie: Introducing...
Ilustrator: Oscar Zarate
ISBN: 9781848310940
Dimensiuni: l: 11.8cm | H: 16.8cm
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.