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RSS FeedsA brief history of A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
(The Guardian Books News)

 
 

14 march 2018 11:54:50

 
A brief history of A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
(The Guardian Books News)
 


The late physicist´s editor, Peter Guzzardi, recalls his first meetings with Hawking and how his book became a bestsellerStephen Hawking dies aged 76I first encountered Stephen Hawking on the cover of the New York Times magazine. Inside, its pages told a story we all know today, but at the time it was a revelation: a Cambridge astrophysicist sought to solve the great mysteries of the universe, while he himself was trapped in a wheelchair by a progressive neurogenerative disease. I remember being struck by writer Timothy Ferris´s description of Professor´s Hawking´s shoes, their soles pristine, having never touched the ground. I tucked the article in my knapsack, and a few days later I finished reading it on my way to lunch with a literary agent. Related: Stephen Hawking: modern cosmology`s brightest star dies aged 76 Continue reading...


 
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