Stephen Hawking

The Profile

Stephen William Hawking (1942–2018) was a British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author known for work on black holes, singularities and for popular science books that brought complex ideas to a wide audience.

Hawking held the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge (1979–2009), proposed what is known as Hawking radiation (black hole evaporation), was diagnosed with a motor neurone disease (ALS) in the early 1960s, and used a speech synthesizer for communication.

CristianoDA's review (5/5) praises The Universe in a Nutshell for explaining cosmology from Newton and Einstein to quantum particles and ideas about parallel universes. The reviewer notes the book is not easy but very interesting and recommends it to readers curious about the universe. The review highlights topics such as particles, CERN experiments, and the search for a theory of everything.