Stephen Hawking : His Life and Work
Stephen Hawking : His Life and Work
ISBN: 9780857503671
Publication Date: 30 January 2017
In 1963 Stephen Hawking was given a couple of years to live. In January 2017 he celebrates his seventy-fifth birthday. This biography of the brilliant theoretical physicist and inspirational international celebrity, written with the help of Hawking himself and his close associates, now includes:
- His leadership at the London Paralympic Games
- The release of the film about his life The Theory of Everything
- His BBC Reith Lectures in 2016
- His continuing work on black holes, gravitational waves, the new discovery of "supertranslations"
- The launch of the astounding "Starshot" programme
- The first presentation of the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication at Starmus III in June 2016.
Written with the clarity and simplicity for which all Kitty Ferguson's books have been praised, it is a captivating account of an extraordinary life and mind.
About the Author
Kitty Ferguson was born in San Antonio, Texas. She studied at the Juilliard School of Music in New York and was for many years a successful professional musician, conducting and performing oratorio, early music and chamber music. In 1986 she moved to England where her husband was a Visiting Fellow and later Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University.
During this and many subsequent periods of residence at Cambridge, Kitty Ferguson audited graduated lectures and seminars in the Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics and got to know some of the legendary figures in those fields, including Stephen Hawking. In 1987 she retired from music to devote herself full time to writing about science.