This biography of Hawking, written by a physicist, provides an accessible introduction to the life and work of an inspirational figure.Stephen Hawking: A Biography provides an overview of the life and work of this brilliant scientist that can be read and appreciated by students and lay people alike.

Destiny's Child: An Auspicious Birth and Eclectic Childhood Scientist in Training: The Road to Oxford Tragedy and Triumph: Dissertation and Deadly Disease Children and Calculations: Family Man and Theoretician "Stephen's Changed Everything": Black Holes Aren't Black Caltech and Cambridge: Exploring New Horizons Einstein's Legacy: Quantum Gravity Physics or Metaphysics: The "No Boundary" Proposal In a Different Voice: Computers to the Rescue "The Best Selling Book No One Read": A Brief History of Time Endings and Beginnings: Marriages Die, Universes are Born To Boldly Go: Hollywood Calls Brains, Branes, and Stringy Black Holes: Zeroing in on the Theory of Everything Larger than Life: Scientist as Icon

[T]he story of his life…. is told with sympathy, and skilfully interwoven with the developments in Hawking's pioneering theories in cosmology, black holes in particular, and the search for the theory of everything… [A]n intriguing work. Early in her book, the author says that Hawking does not like biographies, so would probably not read this one. Want a bet?

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