Bibliograph

My brief history, Stephen Hawking

Type

Label

My brief history, Stephen Hawking

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

My brief history

Oclc number

853113925

Responsibility statement

Stephen Hawking

Summary

Hawking recounts his improbable journey from postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. A witty, and candid account which introduces readers to a Hawking rarely glimpsed in previous books: the inquisitive schoolboy whose classmates nicknamed him Einstein; 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

Table Of 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

Target audience

adult

Classification