Stephen Hawking: Life and Science: Kitty Ferguson

The image of the great astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has long become a cult, his name is a synonym for genius, and courage, and hope. Once upon a time, the Cambridge student was made a terrible diagnosis – bass – and promised no more than two years of life. The young man rushed to finish the dissertation – suddenly he would have time. And he managed to: make a huge contribution to the study of the riddles of the universe, become famous throughout the world with popular science books for adults and children, become the character of the Star Way and Simpsons, the hero of documentary films and the favorite of the press, get married twice, get his grandchildren … Nowadays, he crossed the line of the seventy years. An indomitable creature lives in the body of a disabled person, devoid of movement and speech, radiating energy, mind, humor and charm on the whole planet. The American writer Kitty Ferguson publishes books for many years and lectures on cosmology for a wide audience. He brought her international fame “Talent to translate from the language of physicists into a simple human.” She wrote a biography of Hawking with approval and with help …

Author
Ferguson Kitty
Translator
Sums Lyubov Borisovna
Publisher
Corpus, 2014