stephen hawking

Stephen Hawking: A Graphic Guide

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Stephen Hawking is the world-famous physicist with a cameo in The Simpsons on his CV, but outside his academic field his work is little understood. To the public he is a tragic figure – a brilliant scientist and author of the 9 million-copy-selling A Brief History of Time, and yet confined to a wheelchair and almost completely paralysed.

Hawking’s major contribution to science has been to integrate the two great theories of 20th-century physics – Einstein's General...