STEPHEN HAWKING: A LIFE IN SCIENCE

More than a brilliant physicist, Stephen Hawking was also an exceptional communicator, and perhaps more than any other scientist he broadened our basic understanding of the universe. Originally published in 1992 and updated in 2002, this book traces the course of Hawking's life and work in parallel, showing how the events of his life affected his scientific thought. Science writer John Gribbin is also the author of In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, while Michael White is the author of The Pope and the Heretic and a finalist for the 2002 Aventis Prize (which he lost to Hawking himself). "There are larger questions here than the life of even this singular man."--Peter Ackroyd