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The Real Stephen Hawking
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Websites
Master of the Universe
/science/microsites/M/master_universe/index.html
Transmitted in March 2008, the programme asks whether Stephen Hawking can really unravel the secrets of the universe
Stephen Hawking
www.hawking.org.uk
Biographical, educational and scholarly site on Hawking's life and ideas.
It also contains his views on his own disability, and useful related sites.
Stephen Hawking's Universe
www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/html/home.html
Expert site on Hawking and his ideas with a downloadable guide for teachers.
It also has links to other cosmologists.
Stephen Hawking, the Big Bang and God
www.leaderu.com/real/ri9404/bigbang.html
Among other things, has a critique of Hawking's work by Dr Henry Schaefer
III, director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, University
of Georgia.
The Stephen Hawking Pages
www.psyclops.com/hawking
Fan site with some quirky and useful links and information. One of the
main attractions of this site is The Hawking Forum.
Hawking Radiation
www.weburbia.com/physics/hawking.html
A discussion of Hawking's discovery that black holes radiate energy and
are not quite black.
Stephen Hawking's Universe
www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/html/home.html
Explores such questions as Where do we come from? and How did the universe
begin? Contains a fun Q&A section.
Motor Neurone Disease Association
www.mndassociation.org
National organisation dedicated to the support of people with MND and
those who care for them. Provides a huge range of free booklets, leaflets
and fact sheets that can be ordered online. (See also below)
Books
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (Bantam, 1995) £7.99
An exploration of our knowledge of astrophysics, and the nature of the
universe, reviewing the great theories of the cosmos, from Galileo and
Newton to Einstein. A best-seller, but not an easy read.
Music to Move the Stars by Jane Hawking (Macmillan, 2000) £6.99
An autobiographical account of Jane Hawking's life with her first husband, Stephen Hawking. The author has included her thoughts on the media reaction to her exceptionally candid memoir.
Stephen Hawking's Universe by David Filkin and Stephen Hawking
(Basic Books Publishing, 1998) £12.50
An account of Hawking's theories about the nature of the universe, and how matter can be produced from nothing at all.
The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence Krauss and Stephen Hawking
(Flamingo, 1997) £6.99
An easy-to-understand introduction to the complexities of today's and tomorrow's physics. The authors use Trekkie examples to assess what is possible according to the laws of physics.
Introducing Stephen Hawking by JP McEvoy and Oscar Zarate (Icon
Books, 1999) £8.99
Beginner's guide to the complex ideas in A Brief History of Time. Hawking has made discoveries about the overlap between the two theories of relativity and quantum mechanics.
God, the Big Bang and Stephen Hawking by David Wilkinson and Arnold
Wolfendale (Monarch, 1996) £5.59
Examines questions about the origin of the universe from the viewpoints of both science and religion.
Stephen Hawking: A life in science by Michael White and John Gribbin
(Penguin, 1998) £7.19
A moving biography that looks at both Hawking's scientific achievement and his personal life.
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