An updated edition of the definitive biography on Stephen Hawking that marries
biography and science to tell the story of one of the most remarkable men in
history
Stephen Hawking is no ordinary scientist. Perhaps more than any other scientist,
h has broadened our basic understanding of the universe. His theoretical work on
black holes and the origins and nature of the cosmos have been groundbreaking,
if not downright revolutionary. He has also spent much of his adult life
confined to a wheelchair, a victim of ALS. But his physical limitations have
done nothing to confine him intellectually or hinder his scientific development.
Hawking would already be remarkable