The book “Hawking Hawking – The Story of a Scientific Legend” published by Omega Plus Books, shows readers the life, personality and supreme intelligence of this legendary scientist, through a writing style that goes back in time.
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“Hawking Hawking – The Story of a Scientific Legend” is rated as one of the ten best biographies of 2021 by Prospect Magazine.
Considered the world's smartest man, a mind without equal, Hawking became the world's most famous living scientist by about the last third of his life.
“Hawking Hawking: The Story of a Scientific Legend” is a serious biography. Richly sourced, with a sharp, time-traveling style, Hawking emerges at his most complete. “A real man: brash, arrogant and ruthless, yet warm, witty and brilliant. Complex. Charismatic. Extraordinary.”
The book argues that to understand Stephen Hawking, we must turn back the clock. During the last third of his life, Hawking became the world's most famous living scientist, but that fame was more or less unrelated to his actual scientific contributions. Although he was a frequent media presence, the attention he received was often unrelated to any of his scientific achievements.
Hawking's research during his most famous years will be largely discounted and have little lasting impact on the world of physics. He is like a fallen star: the space around him glows with his energy, but he is essentially a pale reflection of what he once was.
Not long before, Hawking had been a supernova. The middle third of Hawking’s life had been a spectacular and brilliant one. During those two decades, he had transformed himself from an obscure physicist working with colleagues (and rivals) to understand the properties of the early universe into an international celebrity. He had become the smartest man in the world. He had become a scientific phenomenon like the Beatles were to music . It was a transformation that was as satisfying as it was painful, and by the time it was complete, Hawking had broken with much of his past—and built a myth to replace it.
Only in the first third of Hawking’s life—before he achieved fame and fortune—does the real man behind the legend emerge. The slow flow of time restores Hawking to his original brilliance. By traveling back to Hawking’s youth, one can understand how he acquired and formulated the important scientific insights that made his name. One can see the essence of what it meant to be a famous science communicator. And one can understand the mortal fear of a young man racing to build a legacy—and a family—when a deadly disease seemed ready to strike at any moment.
The book is for anyone interested in the world of physics, especially theoretical physics, and above all, anyone interested in Hawking.
Charles Seife is a professor of journalism at New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism and has written about science and mathematics for nearly three decades. He is the author of numerous books, including the bestseller Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea. He lives in New York.
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