Introducing Stephen Hawking A Graphic Guide

div>b>''An ideal introduction [to Stephen Hawking]'' - i>Independent/i>/b>/div>div>b>i>br>/i>/b>/div>div>b>''Astonishingly comprehensive - clearer than Hawking himself'' - i>Focus/i>/b>/div>div>br>/div>Stephen Hawking was a world-famous physicist with a cameo in i>The Simpsons/i> 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 i>A Brief History of Time/i>, and yet spent the majority of his life confined to a wheelchair and almost completely paralysed.div>br>/div>div>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./div>div>br>/div>div>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./div>

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: J. P. Mcevoy, Oscar Zarate, J.P. McEvoy, McEvo, ZARATE, J McEvoy, J P McEvoy
• Con la collaborazione di: Oscar Zarate (Illustrazione)
• Editore: Icon Books
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 01.10.2009
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali
• EAN: 9781848310940
• ISBN: 978-1-84831-094-0
• Numero di pagine: 176
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 11.9 x 16.8 x 1.4 cm
• Serie: Introducing . . .; Introducing; Introducing (Icon Books)
• Categorie: popular science, STUDY AIDS / General, SCIENCE / History, MATHEMATICS / General, SCIENCE / Astronomy, MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, SCIENCE / Gravity, Popular astronomy & space, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction, ANF:Popular Science, Biography & Memoir, SCIENCE / Astrophysics & Space Science, Graphic Guides: Key Figures, Graphic Guides: Science, SCIENCE / Mathematical Physics, MATHEMATICS / Advanced