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The theory of everything the origin and fate of the universe

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Main Author:	Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018
Format:	Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:	English
Published:	Beverly Hills, CA : New Millennium Audio, c2002.
Subjects:	Cosmology. Science > Philosophy.
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Item Description:	Compact discs. Abridged.
Physical Description:	4 sound discs (4 hrs.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Production Credits:	Produced by Deborah Raffin and Michael Viner ; directed by Deborah Raffin.
ISBN:	1590072294 :
Author Notes:	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 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)