Stephen Hawking : an unfettered mind / Kitty Ferguson.
Stephen Hawking : an unfettered mind / Kitty Ferguson.
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New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Date
2012.
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N530.092/66
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English
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Physical content
viii, 310 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
1942-1975. "The quest for a theory of everything" ; "Our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in" ; "Equal to anything" ; "The realization that I had an incurable disease, that was likely to kill me in a few years, was a bit of a shock" ; "The big question was, wa...
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Publisher
New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Edition
1st ed.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2012.
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"Stephen Hawking has been an iconic figure in physics for the last half a century, making many groundbreaking discoveries on the nature of the universe. Yet while his mind roams to the farthest corners of reality, his body has become increasingly trapped by the advance of Lou Gehrig's disease, which has bound him to a wheelchair, without speech or...
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Stephen Hawking : an unfettered mind / Kitty Ferguson.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-295) and index.
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N530.092/66
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74VvyJXBbqvO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvyJXBbqvO
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0230340601 (hardback)
9780230340602 (hardback)
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530.092
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991016069859702626
