Larsen, Kristine M.,  1963- <br/><br/>
Stephen Hawking :  a biography / 
Kristine Larsen. 
 - Westport, Conn. :  Greenwood Press,  2005. 
 - xix, 165 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - Greenwood biographies.,  1540-4900 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Destiny's child: an auspicious birth and eclectic upbringing -- Scientist in training: the Oxford years -- Tragedy and triumph: deadly disease and dissertation -- Children and calculations: family man and theoretician -- "Stephen's changed everything": black holes aren't black -- CalTech and Cambridge: exploring new horizons -- Physics or metaphysics? the "no-boundary" proposal -- Challenges and controversy: an unexpected silence and time's arrows -- The best selling book that "no one read": a brief history of time -- To boldly go: time travel and television -- Plays, p-branes, and polls: private lives and public pronouncements -- Books and bets: the universe in a nutshell and the end of a paradox -- Stephen Hawking: man vs. myth. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0313323925 (alk. paper) 9780313323928 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005011150 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA513403  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>013112193  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Hawking, S. W.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Physicists--Great Britain--Biography.<br/>Cosmology.<br/>Big bang theory.<br/>Black holes (Astronomy)<br/>Space and time.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QC16.H33  / L37 2005