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The nature of space and time

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Main Author:	Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018
Other Authors:	Penrose, Roger
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1996.
Series:	The Isaac Newton Institute series of lectures
Subjects:	Space and time. Quantum theory. Astrophysics. Cosmology.
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Physical Description:	viii, 141 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-141).
ISBN:	0691037914 (cl : alk. paper)
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)