The Resource My brief history, Stephen Hawking
My brief history, Stephen Hawking
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- Summary
- Hawking recounts his improbable journey from postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. A candid account which introduces readers to a Hawking rarely glimpsed in previous books: the inquisitive schoolboy whose classmates nicknamed him Einstein and the young husband and father struggling to gain a foothold in the world of physics and cosmology. Hawking opens up about the challenges that confronted him following his diagnosis of ALS, and explains how the prospect of an early death urged him onward through numerous intellectual breakthroughs
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Frist edition.
- Extent
- 127 pages
- Contents
-
- Childhood
- St. Albans
- Oxford
- Cambridge
- Gravitational waves
- The big bang
- Black holes
- Caltech
- Marriage
- A brief history of time
- Time travel
- Imaginary time
- No boundaries
- Isbn
- 9780345535283
- Label
- My brief history
- Title
- My brief history
- Statement of responsibility
- Stephen Hawking
- Subject
-
- Autobiographies
- Autobiographies
- Autobiographies
- Autobiography
- Biographies
- Black holes (Astronomy)
- Black holes (Astronomy)
- Black holes (Astronomy)
- Cosmologie
- Cosmology
- Cosmology
- Cosmology
- Great Britain
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Patients
- Hawking, Stephen W, 1942-2018
- Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018
- Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018
- Physicists
- Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Sclérose latérale amyotrophique -- Patients -- Biographies
- Trous noirs (Astronomie)
- cosmology
- Hawking, S. W., (Stephen W)
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Patients -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Hawking recounts his improbable journey from postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. A candid account which introduces readers to a Hawking rarely glimpsed in previous books: the inquisitive schoolboy whose classmates nicknamed him Einstein and the young husband and father struggling to gain a foothold in the world of physics and cosmology. Hawking opens up about the challenges that confronted him following his diagnosis of ALS, and explains how the prospect of an early death urged him onward through numerous intellectual breakthroughs
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1942-2018
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hawking, Stephen
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Hawking, Stephen
- Hawking, Stephen
- Hawking, Stephen W
- Hawking, S. W.
- Physicists
- Cosmology
- Black holes (Astronomy)
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Cosmologie
- Trous noirs (Astronomie)
- Sclérose latérale amyotrophique
- cosmology
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Black holes (Astronomy)
- Cosmology
- Physicists
- Great Britain
- Cosmology
- Black holes (Astronomy)
- Physicists
- Label
- My brief history, Stephen Hawking
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Childhood -- St. Albans -- Oxford -- Cambridge -- Gravitational waves -- The big bang -- Black holes -- Caltech -- Marriage -- A brief history of time -- Time travel -- Imaginary time -- No boundaries
- Control code
- 853113925
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- Frist edition.
- Extent
- 127 pages
- Isbn
- 9780345535283
- Lccn
- 2013027938
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 655
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)853113925
- Label
- My brief history, Stephen Hawking
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Childhood -- St. Albans -- Oxford -- Cambridge -- Gravitational waves -- The big bang -- Black holes -- Caltech -- Marriage -- A brief history of time -- Time travel -- Imaginary time -- No boundaries
- Control code
- 853113925
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- Frist edition.
- Extent
- 127 pages
- Isbn
- 9780345535283
- Lccn
- 2013027938
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 655
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)853113925
Subject
- Autobiographies
- Autobiographies
- Autobiographies
- Autobiography
- Biographies
- Black holes (Astronomy)
- Black holes (Astronomy)
- Black holes (Astronomy)
- Cosmologie
- Cosmology
- Cosmology
- Cosmology
- Great Britain
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Patients
- Hawking, Stephen W, 1942-2018
- Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018
- Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018
- Physicists
- Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Sclérose latérale amyotrophique -- Patients -- Biographies
- Trous noirs (Astronomie)
- cosmology
- Hawking, S. W., (Stephen W)
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Patients -- Biography
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